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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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Species
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Ouratea flexipedicellata Dwyer
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 14: 439, 1967.
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Description
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Shrubs (?) with the branches terete, smooth. Leaves with the petioles up to 0.8 cm long, stout, ascending, well-spaced; blades narrowly oblong, up to 25 cm long, 6.5 cm wide,. often widest slightly above the middle, gradually cuneate toward the apex, the ultimate acumination up to 1.2 cm long, obtuse at the base, thinly coriaceous, lustrous, glabrous, with the costa prominulous above, somewhat prom- inent below, the lateral veins ca 10, slender and somewhat prominulous above, more conspicuous beneath, strongly arcuate, with the intermediate veins evanescent above, somewhat conspicuous beneath, occasionally not strongly arcuate and be- coming evanescent toward the margin, with the margin somewhat thickened, scarcely repand, the teeth minute, 4-7 mm apart, serrate above, the teeth along the upper 1/3 of the margin divergent, up to 1 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, narrowly racemiform-paniculate, 8-30 cm long, with the rachises arcuate proximally, delicately flexuose distally, terete, up to 0.15 cm wide, minutely puberu- lent, the bostryces located almost to the base of the rachis, 3-5-flowered, those below the middle of the rachis well-spaced, 0.5-2 cm apart, the branches much re- duced, 0.2-1 cm long; pedicels filiform, ca 0.75 mm wide in the middle, conspicuously reflexed, minutely puberulent, the articulation-stalks ca 1-2 mm long. Flowers with the buds (one seen) narrowly ovate, up to 0.9 cm long. Fruits (here imma- ture) with the receptacle oblong, up to 8 mm long, the drupes elliptic-rotund, 4 mm long.
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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Known only from the type locality.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: forest nr Pidiaque, Duke 8050 (MO).
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