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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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Species
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Ardisia solanacea Roxb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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P1. Coast. Coromandel 1: 27. t. 27. 1795.
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Description
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Shrubs, 1-4.5 m high, the branchlets usually thick, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, the petioles to 15 mm long, usually shorter, marginate; leaf blades oblanceolate, obovate, or oblong-elliptic, 7.5-15 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide, widely acuminate or obtusish apically, narrowed and basally acute, decurrent, chartaceous, the venation fine, sometimes conspicuously reticulate, the costa plane or nearly so above, elevated beneath. Inflorescences axillary (also see A. pleurobotrya), long-pedunculate with 1 corymb apically, few-flowered, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous, subcorymbose, the pedicels stout, rigid, 1-3 cm long; flowers at anthesis 7-8 mm long, the buds acute; sepals free, depressed- ovate, suborbicular or reniform, 2-3 mm long, punctate, ciliolate at first; petals connate basally, ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, asymmetrical, punctate with small dispersed glands; stamens ca. 6 mm long, the filaments 1-2 mm long, the anthers lanceolate, to 5.5 mm long, conspicuously black-punctate dorsally, tapered to an acute apex; ovary glabrous, ovoid, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate, the style ca. 6 mm long.
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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Native to India, Malaya, and China; naturalized and cultivated in the American tropics.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Curundu Heights, Stimson & Gardner 5439 (MO). Fort Clayton, Tyson & Dwyer 4469 (MO). Gatmn railroad station, Tyson 3511 (MO). Miraflores Locks area, Tyson 1133 (MO). Summit Garden, Dwyer 7166, Stimson 5362 (both MO).
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