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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 rotheana Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 408. 1950.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Allen 4495 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Vines. Stems with warty-appearing bark. Leaves thick, glabrous except on the veins beneath, oblong-elliptic to ovate, acuminate, basally truncate to slightly rounded, 6-10 cm long and 3-4 cm wide; petiole sparsely pubescent, 0.5-1 cm long. Inflorescences umbelliform, 1- or few-flowered; peduncle 3-5 mm long; pedicels 12-15 mm long or more. Flowers yellow; calyx lobes ovate, ca. 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, glabrous, margins ciliate; corolla campanulate, glabrous, the tube ca. 2.5 mm long, the lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, 3-4 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide; corona lobes subquadrate, apiculate, ca. 2 mm long. Fruit (described from Colombian material) borne singly, terete or nearly so, fusiform, apically long acuminate, 11-22 cm long, ca. 7.5-9.5 mm in diameter, smooth, glabrous.
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Habit
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Vines
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Distribution
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Known only from the type and one collection recently made by Gentry and Forrero from Choco, Colombia.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Cerro Pajita, region N of El Valle de Anton, Allen 4495 (MO).
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