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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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Marsdenia dressleri Spellman
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Dressler 3451 (MO, holotype)
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Description
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Glabrous vines. Leaves elliptic to occasionally ovate, dark green and subnitid above, lighter beneath, apically short acuminate, basally rounded, 10-12 cm long and 4.5-6 cm wide, the midvein thickly prominent, with 3 pairs of more prom- inent lateral veins which merge to form an irregular marginal vein; petioles 1-1.5 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform, ca. 10-flowered, glabrous; peduncles ca. 3 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Flowers red-brown, ca. 7-8 mm long; calyx lobes imbricate when expanded, thickened, suborbicular, glabrous except for the ciliate margins, 2.5 mm long, equally wide; corolla tube cylindrical 5-6 mm long, glabrous outside, retrorsely pubescent in clusters of hairs inside, weakly strigose at the mouth, the lobes elliptic, 3-4 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, glabrous,
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Habit
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vines
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Description
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the margins ciliate; corona 5-segmented, segments carnose, convex, lanceolate, closely appressed to the stamens; gynostegium ca. 4 mm high; stigma head topped by a thick, conical rostrum which is undivided and minutely papillose. Follicles unknown.
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Distribution
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Known only from the type collection.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: La Eneida, region of Cerro Jefe, Dressler 3451 ( MO).
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