(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 CRICAMOLENSE Trel.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 27:290. 1940.
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Description
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A brittle, somewhat nodose shrub, 2-3 mn. tall; flowering internodes short and relatively slender, microscopically strigulose especially about the nodes, quickly glabrescent; leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, apex abruptly sharp-acuminate, base subequilateral, obtuse, 4-7 cm. wide X 9-13 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 4-5 on each side, strongly curved and unbranched upward, salient beneath, with conspicuous cross-connecting nervules, finely nervu- lose by transmitted light, glabrous on both sides or microscopically strigulose along the nerves, obscurely glandular-dotted beneath, drying papery, translucent; petiole scarcely 5 mm. long, microscopically strigulose, vaginate at the base only; spikes 2-3 mm. thick X 5-7 cm. long; peduncle 5 mm. long, rather stout, glabrous or microscopically strigulose; bracts triangular-subpeltate, marginally densely yellow- fringed; ovary narrowly ovoid-trigonous, yellow-glandular; stigmas 3, slender, sessile.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Rio Cricamola, between Finca St. Louis and Konkintoe, alt. 10-50 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert I927.
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Note
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The more or less microscopically strigulose twigs, low branching of the midrib, densely yellow-fringed bracts, and ovoid ovary characterize this species.
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