(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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Gentlea austin-smithii (Lundell) Lundell
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PlaceOfPublication
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Wrightia 4: 68. 1968.-FIG. 12.
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Synonym
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Ardisia minor Standley, Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 17: 522. 1927, non King & Gamble, Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74: 146. 1906. Ardisia austin-smithii Lundell, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 7: 36. 1942. Gentlea minor (Standley) Lundell, Wrightia 3: 104. 1964.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, to 10 m high, the bark brownish, the branchlets slender, the internodes short. Leaves glabrous, petiolate, marginate, the petioles 3-7 mm long; leaf blades chartaceous, narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate, 2.5-7 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, obtuse or subacuminate apically, often rather abruptly so, the acumen obtuse, acute or acutely cuneate and decurrent basally, the costa slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, the primary veins slender, prominulous on both surfaces, the ultimate veins laxly reticulate, the margin entire. Inflorescences terminal, small, shorter than the leaves, the rachis and branches stout, crowded, few-flowered, bipinnately- paniculate, glabrous or minutely lepidote; bracts thin, caducous, obovate, to 7 mm long, erose; pedicels 2.5-5.5 mm long. Flowers umbellate, (4-)5(-6)- merous; calyx sparsely lepidote, the sepals ovate-orbicular, ovate, or oblong- lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, broadly rounded, acute or obtuse, erose, sparsely orange-punctate; corolla lepidote, 3-4.2 mm long, the petals narrowly tri- angular-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, rounded or obtuse, asymmetric, connate basally into a tube ca. 1.2 mm long, punctate medially above with small orange-red glands; stamens attached slightly above the base of the corolla tube, exserted, to 5.5 mm long, the filaments slender, the anthers minute, cordate, ca. 0.5 mm long, obtuse-rounded and minutely apiculate apically; ovary glabrous or rarely lepidote, depressed-globose, the ovules 8-10, in several series, the placenta ovate, apiculate, the style exserted, 3.5-4.5 mm long. Fruit globose, black, ca. 6 mm diameter at maturity; endocarp finely costate.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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A cloud forest species of Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Specimen
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cHIRIQuI: Bajo Chorro, 6000 ft, Davidson 388 (F, MO, US). Cerro Horqueta, cloud forest, 6000 ft. von Hagen & von Hagen 2044 (MO).
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Note
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The flowers of the Davidson collection are diseased and abnormal.
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