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(Last Modified On 9/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/19/2013)
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Species
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Biophytum falcifolium Lourt.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Folsom & Collins 5609 (MO, holotype; P, isotype).
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Description
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Erect or decumbent herbs to 20 cm long; stems single or basally branched, with curved, short pubescence, glabrescent; root fibrous, branched. Leaves 9-20 pseudoverticillate at the end of the stem, linear subcuneate, to 15 cm long, 1.6 cm wide, 13-34 jugate; lower leaflets ovate or subtriangular, ca. 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, the middle leaflets falcate, 5.6-11 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide, basally the posterior side curved, the anterior side slightly curved or truncate at the midrib, central or emerging from nearer the posterior angle, the terminal leaflets elliptical, asymmetric, about equalling or shorter than the middle leaflets, the leaflets opposite or subopposite, subacute, the mucro 0.1-0.2 mm long, fine pu- bescent on both sides or glabrous or glabrescent above, ciliate, the minor venation reticulate; petiole ca. 1 cm long, fleshy; rachis narrowly winged, minutely pu- bescent above, hirsute beneath; petiolules wider than long, 0.1-0.2 mm long, fleshy. Inflorescences 1-3, globose or cylindric, 1-3(-5) flowers seen at different degrees of opening; peduncles 0-7 mm long, violaceous, glabrous or minutely
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Habit
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herbs
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Description
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pubescent; bracts-subulate, ca. 2.5 mm long, purplish, situated at the insertion of the peduncle, sparsely short pilose; bracteoles spirally overlapping, green, basally violaceous, narrowly triangular, 1.5-3 mm long, 1-nerved, strongly keeled, short pubescent and glandular, the hairs 1-several celled; pedicels 7-15 mm long, violaceous, fine pubescent. Flowers with sepals linear-elliptic, sharp, 4.5-7 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, 5-7-nerved, densely glandular, the hairs 1- several celled; petals cream, pinkish veined, oblong spatulate, the base clawed, 1.5 times the calyx length; longer stamens unequal, 3-3.5 mm long, white, flat with a few glandular hairs; the anthers ovoid with cordate base, the shorter stamens 1-1.5 mm with sterile anthers, or the entire stamen becoming a glandular relic; pistil equalling or shorter than the long stamens, 2.5-3.5 mm long, the style glandular pubescent, the stigma bifid, the ovary 5-lobulate, apically pilose, the carpels 3-4-ovuled. Capsule globose, ca. 3.5 mm long, shorter than the calyx, apically glandular pubescent, the carpels 3-seeded; seeds too immature to de- scribe.
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This species is closely allied to Biophytum panamense but is distinguished by the shape of the leaflets and the white petals. Also the bracteoles and the pubes- cence are different. The epithet refers to the shape of the leaflets, curved like a sickle.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Rivera sawmill, Alto Calvario, 7 km N of El Cope, 700-850 m, Folsom & Collins 6509 (MO, P). Trail from Rio San Juan to Rio Tife Falls, 1200-2500 ft, Hammel 3352A (MO).
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