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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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Species
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CHUSQUEA SIMPLICIFLORA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26:54. 1868.
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Description
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Culms scandent or high-climbing, as much as 25 m. long, 5 mm. thick, smooth or roughly papillose above the nodes; sheaths ciliate, more or less fimbriate at the mouth; blades of the sterile shoots mostly 5-9 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, pilose on the lower surface at the base, otherwise glabrous, the margins scabrous; fertile shoots 2-8 cm. long in dense fascicles on long slender drooping branches, the blades 5-20 mm. long; panicles very small, composed of 1 to 4 spikelets; spikelets 8-9 mm. long, appressed; glumes thin, about 0.5 mm. long; sterile lemmas acuminate, half to two-thirds as long as the floret; fertile lemma acute, awnless, glabrous; palea about as long as the lemma, rounded on the back or sulcate only near the tip; stamens 3.5 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Common in moist thickets and forests at low altitudes, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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Specimen
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COLON: Catival, Standley 30257. CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Piper 529I; Standley 27433; Empire, Hitchcock 7952; Piper 5292; Gamboa, Standley 28367; Obispo, Standley 3i669; Cerro Gorda, Standley 25985; Barro Colorado Island, Bailey d Bailey 285; Kenoyer 125; Corozal, Standley 27339, 29062; Pedro Miguel, Hitchcock 7959; "Lion Hill Station," Hayes 66i (TYPE); Brazos Brook Reservoir, Stevens 698. PANAMA: Rio Tapia, Hitch- Cock 22952; Standley 26123, 28038.
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Note
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The above specimens are nearly all sterile.
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