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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 stenophylla Donn. Sm.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 24: 395. 1897.
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Synonym
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Ardisia oblqnceolata Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 249. 1929.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, the branchlets slender, minutely lepidote at first, otherwise glabrous. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchlets, the petioles minutely lepidote, 5-7 mm long; leaf blades membranaceous, glabrous, nar- rowly oblanceolate, 12-20 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, acuminate apically, attenuate basally, subcrenulate above the middle, reticulate-veined beneath, the primary lateral veins remote, ca. 10 pairs, arcuate, long-ascending, pellucid- punctate. Inflorescences terminal, subsessile, bipinnately paniculate, slender, to 9 cm long, fully as wide basally, minutely lepidote at first, otherwise gla- brous. Flowers subumbellate, 5-merous; pedicels slender, 9-12 mm long; buds ca. 7 mm long, glabrous, narrowly conical; sepals membranaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long and to 1 mm wide basally, sharply acuminate, ciliolate; petals connate basally, oblong-lanceolate, acute; anthers (in bud) 5 mm long, acute, punctate dorsally, nearly sessile (in bud); ovary and the style equaling the stamens, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Fruit globose, red, ca. 1 cm long, punctate, the seeds multicostate.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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Panama and Costa Rica
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Region of Almirante, Cooper 370 (F, holotype of A. oblanceolata; US, isotype). Vicinity of San San River, Davao Farm, United Fruit Co., Almirante, common in virgin rain forest, Seibert 1572 (MO, US). Water Valley, von Wedel 617 (F).
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