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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 dwyeri Lundell
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PlaceOfPublication
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Wrightia 4: 145. 1970.-FIG. 14.
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Description
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Shrubs, ca. 3 m high, branchlets furfuraceous, rigid, slender to thickish. Leaves petiolate, the petioles stout, 5-10 mm long, canaliculate, densely fur- furaceous on the lower side; leaf blades chartaceous to subcoriaceous, brownish beneath, grayish above, oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 6.5-13 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, acute, apically and basally, the margin entire, persistently brown-lepidote beneath, glabrate above, the midvein narrowly impressed above, prominent beneath, the primary lateral veins slender and inconspicuous. In- florescences small, terminal, bipinnately paniculate, 3.5-6.5 cm long, densely furfuraceous, brown, the bracts small, scale-like. Flowers umbellate, 5-merous; pedicels thick, 3-5 mm long, sparsely lepidote; sepals asymmetrical, depressed- orbicular, 1.7-2 mm long, rounded apically, ciliolate, conspicuously punctate with red marginal and black medial glands; corolla glabrous, ca. 6.5 mm long, the petals connate basally, the campanulate tube 1.7-2 mm high, the petals oblong-elliptic, symmetrical, black-punctate; stamens attached medially to the corolla tube, the filaments thick, ca. 1.6 mm long, the anthers thick, lanceolate, widest basally, ca. 2.8 mm long, glandular-punctate dorsally, the glands inconspicuous, but blackened; ovary glabrous, the ovules pluriseriate, numerous the style slender, punctate, ca. 4 mm long. Fruit subglobose, ca. 8 mm in diameter.
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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Native to Panama.
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Native
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Panama
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Cerro Jefe, roadside thicket, ca. 2900 ft, Dwyer & Hayden 8082 (LL, holotype; MO, US, isotypes). Beyond Goofy Lake along road to Cerro Jefe, Correa v Dressler 462 (MO).
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