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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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Species
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HEISTERIA FATOENSIS Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 8:137. 1930.
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Description
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Shrubs or trees to 3.5 m. tall, the young branches generally angular, sometimes strikingly flexuose, glabrous, brownish-red. Leaves ovate, 5-13 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, abruptly and briefly acuminate at the apex, rotund at the base, chartaceous, the costa plane above, emersed below, the primary lateral veins 5-6 pairs; petiole 7-12 mm. long, slightly canaliculate. Calyx crateriform, 5-toothed, glabrous, the teeth 0.5 mm. long and broad; petals 5, deltoid, 1.75-2.0 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad at the base, glabrous without, puberulent within; stamens 10, free, the anthers to 0.25 mm. long and broad, the filaments liguliform, 1.0-1.5 mm. long, about 0.25 mm. broad, puberulent; pistil conical, 0.75-1.0 mm. long, about 0.75 mm. in diameter, glabrous; pedicel 4.5-6.0 mm. long. Fruiting calyx much shorter than the drupe, obscurely lobed, strongly reflexed, about 1 cm. in diameter; drupe oblate spheroid, 7-9 mm. long, 9-11 mm. in diameter, cherry to yellowish- red; pedicel 13-20 mm. long.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Native
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Endemic to Panama.
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Distribution
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Panama
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Note
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Flowering and fruiting from July to October.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, Von Wedel I40I. COLON: Loma de Gloria, near Fato (Nombre de Dios), Pittier 4244.
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Note
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Pittier reports the type collection as being "a woody vine". He may have been mistaken as vines are little known in this genus. In addition, the specimens do not have a vine-like aspect.
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