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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 hastularum Yuncker
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Description
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An essentially glabrous, soft-wooded shrub, 1-3 m. tall; flowering internodes moderately slender to stoutish; leaves lance-ovate or broadly lanceolate, apex gradually sharp-acute to acuminate, base ob- liquely inequilateral, one side 3-10 mm. shorter at the petiole, both sides obtuse at the petiole or the shorter side subacute, the longer sometimes sub- cordate, 6-11 cm. wide X 22-29 cm. long, pin- nately nerved below the upper third, the nerves 4-5 on each side, somewhat raised beneath, with rather strong cross-connecting nervules, the sub- marginal nervule more or less papillate or puberu- lent, drying chartaceous-subcoriaceous, op aque, somewhat glossy, narrowly revolute, glandular- dotted and sometimes microscopically black-mottled beneath; petiole 20-25 plus 3-10 mm. long, strongly vaginate-winged to the blade; spikes 3-4 mm. thick X 13 cm. long; peduncle slender, about 1-2 cm. long; bracts narrowly triangular- or lunate-subpeltate, smooth or papillate, the pedicel broad, concave, glabrous or ciliate; fruit truncate-subglobose, glabrous; stigmas sessile.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Western Colombia and Panama.
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Specimen
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COLOMBIA: CHOCO: Bahia Solano, dense forest along Quebrada Jellita, alt. 50-100 m., Feb. 22, 1939, Killip d Garcia 33568 (U. S. Nat. Herb., TYPE). PANAMA: BOCAS DEL TORO: Old Bank Island, von Wedel I934. COCLEI: El Valle de Anton, along Rio Indio Trail, alt. 500-700 m., Hunter d Allen 3i6. DARIEN: Chepigana District, Cafia-Cuasi Trail (Camp 2), alt. 1200 m., March 10, 1940, Terry & Terry 146I.
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Note
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The lanceolate leaves and submarginal puberulent nervules distinguish this species.
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