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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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ARISTOLOCHIA PANAMENSIS Standley,
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PlaceOfPublication
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Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 15:5. 1925.
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Description
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Decumbent subshrubs, to 6 dm. tall. Leaves alternate, spiral, very variable in shape, narrowly lanceolate to broadly obovate, villous-tomentose, 5 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 10 cm. wide. Pseudostipules absent. Flowers cauliflorous, borne near the soil in inconspicuous short racemes, ca. 5 cm. long along the curved axis, brownish marked with purple, the utricle narrow, thence widening into a gibbous sac, the limb sharply reflexed on the utricle, the tube reduced to a constriction of the utricle. Gynostemium of 6 closely connate styles, capitate. Fruit cylindric, ca. 3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, dehiscing api- cally. Seeds several, pyramidal, grooved, ca. 4 mm. wide.
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subshrub
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Endemic to Panama.
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Distribution
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Panama
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Cocoa Plantation, Lindsay 488; Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 295I5, 25740; Rio Paraiso, above East Paraiso, StandleyV2Qo6 (type); Rio Pedro Miguel, near East Paraiso, Standley 29950. CHIRIQUI: Pastures and forested river banks east of Gualaca, alt. 500 ft., Allen 5040; vicinity of San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, alt. 0-120 m., Pittier 5463; San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, Pittier 5750.
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