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(Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
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Species
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Gonolobus fuscoviolaceus Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 28: 462. 1941.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Woodson & Schery 695 (MO, US).
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Description
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Herbaceous vines; stems slender, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate- elliptic, acuminate apically, basally rounded to subcordate, discolorous, glabrous, mostly 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide; petioles glabrous, 1.5-2.5 cm long. In- florescences umbelliform racemes, mostly 7-12-flowered, glabrate throughout; peduncles 10-12 mm long; pedicels 6-8 mm long. Flowers with the calyx lobes glabrous, lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide; corolla rotate, green, 7-8 mm in diameter, the lobes ovate, 2.5-3 mm long and 2-2.5 mm wide, glabrous
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Habit
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vines
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Description
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beneath, papillate above, the faucal annulus an inconspicuous 5-angled, puberulent ridge; anther appendages thick, subquadrate, broadly retuse apically, ca. 0.3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; the corona 5-lobed, the lobes subquadrate, crenulate at the margins; gynostegium pentagonal; stigma head deeply depressed. Follicles + fusiform, long acuminate, winged dorsally and ventrally, the wings extending the full length of the fruit, 7.5 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter (immature).
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Distribution
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Known only from the type collection
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Note
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G. fuscoviolaceus is characterized by its glabrous condition and its extremely small flowers.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Near Bajo Chorro, 1900 m, Woodson & Schery 695 (MO, US).
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