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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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Species
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PIPER CARRILLOANUM C.DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. BeIg. 301:209. 1891.
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Synonym
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Piper vallicolum C.DC. loc. cit. 222. 1891. Piper paulownifolium C.DC. in Anal. Inst. Fis. Geogr. Costa Rica 9:173. 1898. Piper tiliaefolium Cham. & Schlechtd. var. paulownifolium C.DC. in Candollea 1:154. 1923. Piper Omega Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:146. 1929.
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Description
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A shrub, 2-4 m. tall, glabrous except the puberulous nerves on the lower surface; upper internodes moderately slender and elongated; leaves subequilaterally ovate, apex rather long-acuminate, base subtruncate to moderately deeply cordate with open sinus, the blade margin commonly meeting over the petiole, rather small and elongate, 6-8 cm. wide X 15 cm. long or becoming more rounded and as much as 25 X 35 cm., pinnately nerved to about the middle, 7-9 nerves on each side, the lowermost 3-5 from near the base, salient beneath, with prominent cross- connecting and anastomosing nervules, very finely nervulose by transmitted light,
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Habit
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shrub
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Description
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drying light green, papery, translucent; petiole slender, 2-5 or even 10 cm. long, vaginate winged below the middle; spikes about 3 mm. thick X 15-25 cm. long; peduncle 1-2 cm. long; bracts small, triangular-subpeltate, glabrate; fruit small, obpyramidal-trigonous, gray-papillate, stigmas small, sessile.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Cerro de la Plata, near San Felix, alt. 120-150 m., Pittier 5i58; Paso de Quebrada Gata, between Hato Jobo and San Felix, Pittier 5427. CANAL ZONE: hills north of Frijoles, Standley 276I2; hills west of the canal, near Gatu'n, Standley 27226; Mamei Hill, alt. 20-90 m., Pittier 3812; along Cafio Quebrado, Pittier 6666; Barro Colorado Island, Miller 2073; Maxon, Harvey d Valentine 6809; Standley 3I282, 3I293, 40870, 40964; Bailey d Bailey 30; Stevens 645; Pearson Trail, alt. 100 m., Wetmore d Abbe I23; between Gorgona and Gatuin, alt. 10-50 m., Pittier 226i. COLON: Fato (Nombre de Dios), Pittier 3844. DARIEN: Boca de Pauarando, on Sambu' River, alt. 20 m., Pittier 5687; Chepigana Distr., Cafia-Cuasi Trail, alt. 600 m., Terry d Terry I475.
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Note
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This species closely resembles P. casimirianum Hemsl. of Nicaragua from which it appears to differ because of the leaf shape and puberulence, as described. It is also quite similar to P. zacutapanum of Mexico and may, indeed, be the same. The great variation in the size of the leaves often on the same specimen, leaf shape, puberulent nerves beneath, etc. are distinguishing characteristics.
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