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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 nigropunctata Oerst.
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Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kj0benhavn 1861: 127. t. 2. 1861.
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Synonym
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Ardisia chontalensis Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 90. 1902.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, to 8 m high, the branchlets minutely and densely ferruginous-lepidote at first. Leaves with short marginate petioles to 1 cm long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 15-30 cm long and 5-12 cm wide, rarely larger, usually acuminate, acute and decurrent basally, thin, the margin usually entire, sometimes denticulate, minutely and sparsely lepidote, dotted beneath with abundant black glands, the costa and the primary lateral veins elevated beneath, often slightly impressed above. Inflorescences terminal, many-flowered, open, large and pyramidal, often longer than the leaves, 2-4-pinnately paniculate, minutely lepidote or furfuraceous- lepidote; pedicels sparsely lepidote, 3-5 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, 5 mm long; calyx lepidote basally, otherwise glabrous, conspicuously black-punctate with elevated glands; sepals dextrorsely imbricate, broadly ovate, 1.6-2 mm long, acutish, minutely erose-ciliate; petals dextrorsely imbricate, connate ca. 1 mm at the lepidote base, ovate-lanceolate, slightly asymmetrical, often erose; stamens shorter than the petals, 3.75 mm long, the filaments slender, 1.5-1.75 mm long, the anthers dorsifixed 1/5 above the base, lanceolate-oblong, 2.3-2.6 mm long, with a black line dorsally, apiculate or subulate, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary ovoid, glabrous, the ovules 14-17, pluriseriate, the placenta ovoid, apiculate, the style slender, to 4.5 mm long. Fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diameter.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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BOCAS DEL TORO: 1.5 mi. W of Almirante, Blum 1378 (MO). Between Buena Vista Coffee Finca and Cerro Pilon, on the Chiriqui Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 683 (MO). Vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1344 (LL, MO). Laguna de Chiriqui and its neighborhood, Hart 136 (K, US). Between Quebrada Gutierrez and E slope of La Zorra, headwaters of Rio Mali, Chiriqui Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 728 (MO). 10-15 mi. inland (S) from mouth of the Rio Changuinola, Lewis et al. 986 (LL, MO). Water Valley, von Wedel 801, 974 (both LL, MO).
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