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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Species
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MYRICA MEXICANA Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. Hort. Berol. 2:1011. 1809.
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Synonym
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Myrica xalapensis Kunth, in HBK Nov. Gen. 2:16. 1817.
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Description
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Dioecious trees to 8 m. tall, the branches punctate-glandular, hirsute. Leaves oblanceolate, 3.5-12.0 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, generally smaller in pistillate plants than in staminate plants, apex acute, attenuate at the base, subcoriaceous, both surfaces glandular-punctate, margin entire to distantly dentate, aromatic; petioles 1-3 mm. long. Flowers subtended by a pair of linear bracteoles and an ovate bract, the bracteoles about 0.75 mm. long, deciduous, the bract about 1.0-1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. broad, glandular-punctate on abaxial surface only, margin minutely ciliate at least towards the apex. Staminate flowers (described from Mexican specimens) with 4 (-5) stamens, the filaments about 1.5 mm. long, basally connate. Pistillate flowers with globose ovary about 0.5 mm. tall, 0.5 mm. in diameter, glandular-punctate, strigose apically, the stigmas about 2 mm. long; fruit ovoid, to 4 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, warty.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Mexico to Panama. In Panama found along margins of residual patches of forest in dry windswept grasslands.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Cerro Campana, Allen 2084; Cerro Campana, trail from Campana to Chica, alt. 600-800 m., Allen 2654.
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