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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 OREINOMA Berg
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PlaceOfPublication
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Linnaea 27:158. 1856.
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Description
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Small trees 4-5 m. high, the trunk with grayish, exfoliating bark; young twigs and petioles densely pubescent. Leaves ovate or broadly elliptical, rounded or ob- tuse at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, 9-12 cm. long and 4.5-6.0 cm. wide, reticulate-veined, sparsely pubescent but glabrescent above, densely pubescent with patent hairs beneath, especially on the nerves, the midrib flat above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves in about 8 pairs, arcuate-anastomosing at some distance from the margin, prominulous above, prominent beneath; petiole robust, about 5 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers fasciculate but occasionally solitary, the pedicels about 1 cm. long, pubescent. Flowers not known. Fruit globose, usually densely pilose, 1-seeded, about 4 mm. long, black or purplish, crowned by 4 persistent, striate sepals.
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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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Common
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icaquillo sortija
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Sabana de la Tortuga, between El Boquete and Caldera, alt. 300-700 m., Pittier 3297.
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