(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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Species
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PIPER distigmatum Yuncker
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Description
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A glabrous shrub (?) or small tree, 2-3 m. tall; flowering internodes moderately short and slender; leaves broadly elliptic, apex abruptly short-acuminate, base rounded, obtuse or abruptly subacute at the petiole, 8-9.5 cm. wide X 14-17 cm. long, rugose, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 5 on each side, prominent beneath, not branched but with slender cross-connect- ing and anastomosing nervules, red-glandular- cm. long, vaginate to the blade; spikes 5-8 mm. thick X 1.5-2.2 cm. long, apiculate; peduncle about 1 cm. long; bracts triangular-lunate, glabrous, pedicel broad, curved; fruit subglobose, stigmas 2, ligulate, recurved, on a rather long, stoutish, subulate style.
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Habit
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shrub
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Boquete Region, Cerro Horqueta, cloud forest, alt. 1950 In., April 17, 1940, von Hagen d von Hagen 2009 (Herb. Missouri Bot. Gard., TYPE); April 27, 1940, von Hagen d von Hagen 2058.
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Note
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The broadly elliptic, somewhat rugose leaves, and bistigmatic, rather long- styled fruit distinguish this species. It differs from P. Davidsonii because of the shape of the larger, rugose, more abruptly acuminate leaves, 5-nerved on each side.
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