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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 copeyana Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 886. 1938.
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Description
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Trees, branchlets stout, with interpetiolar ridges, lepidote at first, glabrate in fruit. Leaves with thick marginate petioles 3-10 mm long; leaf blades glabrous, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, punctate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 10.5-20 cm long and 5-9 cm wide, short acuminate apically, sometimes abruptly so, revolute basally, decurrent, acute, the margin obscurely crenulate, essentially entire, drying brownish on both surfaces, the costa thick, nearly plane above, elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal, paniculate, essentially glabrous, 4-15 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, subcorymbose; pedicels erect, 3-4 mm (in the type), to 8 mm long (Allen 4023); sepals broadly ovate, 1.5-2 mm long, rounded apically, punctate with orange glands; petals oblong-elliptic, ca. 7 mm long, connate basally ca. 1.5 mm, asymmetrical apically, inconspicuously punctate with a few orange glands, the medial lineate, the apical rounded; stamens 5 mm long, the filaments thick, ca. 2 mm long, the anthers lanceolate, 3 mm long, acute, dehiscent by small apical pores; ovary subglobose, the ovules many, the placenta pluriseriate, the style 5.5 mm long. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diameter, densely punctate.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Cerro Campana, 800 m, Allen 4023 (MO, P).
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Note
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Stork 1592 (US, holotype; MICH, isotype) is a poor fruiting collection from El Copey, Costa Rica. It has very short fruiting pedicels, and the type is completely glabrous. Allen 4023, a flowering specimen, is referred to this species with some question. The pedicels of the Panama plants are longer, but the inflorescence, calyx, and leaves closely resemble those of the Costa Rican taxon. The description of the flowers is based on Allen 4023.
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