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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
Species PIPER DAVIDANUM C.DC.
PlaceOfPublication Smiths. Misc. Coll. 716:9. 1920.
Description A shrub, 2 m. tall, nodose; flowering internodes moderately slender, glabrous, granular, with subnodal lenticels; leaves elliptic, apex rather short-acuminate, base inequilateral, one side 4-5 mm. shorter and acute, the longer side rounded, 6-9 cm. wide X 16-19 cm. long, glabrous on both sides, finely scabrous and glandular- dotted beneath, smooth above, pinnately nerved below the upper third, the nerves rather prominent beneath, 5-6 on each side, with slender cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, drying pale green, membranous, translucent; petiole 6 plus 4-5 mm. long, vaginate at the base, glabrous; spikes 3 mm. thick X 8-10 cm. long; peduncle 5-7 mm. long, glabrous; bracts triangular-lunate-subpeltate, sparsely papillate-fringed; fruit oblong-tetragonous, granulate-papillate at the top, stigmas sessile.
Habit shrub
Specimen CHIRIQUI: vicinity of David, along streamlet, alt. 30-80 m., Pittier 2837.
Note The glabrous stems and leaves, and scabrous lower leaf surface characterize this species.
 
 
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