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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
Species Fischeria panamensis Spellman
Note TYPE: Panama, Allen 1644 (MO, holotype; F, GH, NY, US, isotypes).
Description Leaves elliptic to ovate, rarely obovate, apically acuminate, the acumina sometimes prolonged into short caudicles, basally shallowly cordate, the sinuses rarely more than 1 cm deep, the lobes sometimes imbricate, blades mostly 9-15 cm long, to 20 cm or more when older, 4-8(-12) cm wide, above scabrous or rarely short pilose, beneath softly tomentose to velutinous; petioles usually 2-4 cm long, puberulent and pilose. Inflorescences sparsely to densely long pilose throughout; peduncles mostly 5-10 cm long, occasionally elongating with age to 16 cm or more; pedicels commonly 2.5-3.5 cm long. Flowers yellowish or whitish green; calyx abaxially brown puberulent with short hairs and sparse or dense pilose hairs to ca. 3 mm long, the lobes lanceolate-acuminate, usually 5 or more times longer than broad, (9-)11-15(-20) mm long and 2-2.5(-3.5) mm wide, the margins conspicuously undulate; corolla 17-21 mm in diameter, lobes ovate-acute, 6.5-8.5 mm long and 4.5-6.5 mm wide, adaxial surface with a median band of inconspicuous papillae overtopped by a triangular pattern of sparse to dense flattened hairs, the margins glabrate, crispate apically on one or occasionally both margins; corona 1-1.5 mm high, longitudinally striate-sulcate, distinctly 5-lobate; gynostegium 2-3 mm high, the inflated portions of the stamens elliptic to suborbicular in outline, the staminal membranes broadly rounded to triangular covering about one-half the area of the stigma head; ovaries densely pubescent, rarely glabrate. Follicles unknown.
Distribution This species is known from the Atlantic lowlands from Panama through Costa Rica and into Nicaragua
Note flowers from November through April.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Above Almirante, Gentry 2806 (MO). COCLE: El Valle de Ant6n (N rim), Allen 1644 (F, GH, MO, NY, US). COLON: Santa Rita (E) Ridge, Duke 15247 (MO), 15248 (OS); Dwyer & Gentry 9368 (MO); Lewis et al. 5259 (DUKE, MO), 5373 (MO). PANAMA: Between Cerro Jefe and Eneida, Dwyer et al. 8237 (MO).
 
 
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