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(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 PHYTOLACCAEFOLIUM Opiz
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PlaceOfPublication
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Reliq. Haenk. 151. 1830.
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Synonym
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Piper brevispicatum Opiz, loc. cit. 151, pl. 28. 1830. Artanthe heterophylla Miq., Syst. Pip. 502. 1844. Artanthe brevispicata Miq., loc. cit. 508. 1844. Artanthe phytolaccaefolia Miq., loc. cit. 534. 1844. Peltobryon phytolaccaefolium Presl, Epim. Bot. 224. 1849. Piper singulare C.DC. in Jour. Bot. 4:161. 1866. Piper amphoricarpum Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:29. 1927. Piper simulans Trel. in Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 18:361. 1937.
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Description
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A glandular-granular shrub, 1-2 m. tall, glabrous or obscurely and transiently puberulent; twigs rather slender; leaves lance- or oblong-elliptic, 3-6 cm. wide X 10-13 cm. long, or occasionally up to 8 X 19 cm., apex acuminate, base acute to cuneate, mostly equilateral, glandular-dotted, often strongly so, pinnately nerved throughout or some leaves from below the upper third, the nerves 4, or in large leaves 5-6 on each side, mostly scarcely ciliate; petiole 5-10 mm. long, vaginate at the base; spikes 5 mm. thick X 2-4 cm. long; peduncle 5-20 mm. long, glabrate or very sparsely hirtellous; bracts triangular- or rounded-subpeltate, marginally fringed; fruit globose, stigmas 3, small, on a short subulate style.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: without definite locality, Nie 363, 364, 367. BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 459. CHIRIQUI: Boquete District, Boquete, alt. 1140 m., Davidson 619; along Rio Caldera, south of El Boquete, alt. 1250 m., Killip 3611.
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Note
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No significant differences have been discovered between the Panamanian speci- mens cited here and those which have been studied from South America. Those from Panama, however, are, so far as seen, less conspicuously glandular-dotted than are those of South America. A specimen collected by Nee without definite locality indicated has the leaves ciliate and with a few scattered long hairs on the upper surface.
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