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(Last Modified On 12/19/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/19/2012)
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Species
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EUGENIA AUSTIN-SMITHII Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 18:1561. 1938.
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Description
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Trees with slender glabrous twigs. Leaves elliptical-oblong to ovate-oblong, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, 6-7 cm. long and 2.5-3.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, the midrib impressed above, prominulous beneath, the lateral nerves about 12 on each side, prominulous on both surfaces; petiole canaliculate, up to 8 mm. long. Flowers mostly cauliflorous; pedicels robust, up to 1 cm. long. Flower buds pear-shaped, the sepals enclosing the petals. Sepals greenish, rounded, reflexed at anthesis, thick, unequal, the 2 inner up to 5 mm. long, the 2 outer nearly 3 mm. long. Petals white, about 7 mm. long. Ovary obconoid, glabrous or with a few hairs, 2-celled, about 3 mm. high, the cells about 12-ovulate. Berry said to be oblong or globose, deep crimson, about 2.0-2.5 cm. in diameter.
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Trees
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Note
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Originally described from Costa Rica, in dry woods at medium altitudes. No specimens from Panama have been seen by the writer, but it is to be expected in the highlands of western Panama.
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