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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/8/2013)
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Species
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Rhamnus capreaefolia Schlecht.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Linnaea 15: 464. 1841.-FIG. 2.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, to 10 m high, the younger stems pubescent, the trichomes brown and appressed. Leaves alternate, ovate to elliptic, acuminate, entire or sometimes serrulate, more or less rounded to weakly obtuse basally, to 14 cm long and 6.5 cm wide, slightly coriaceous, glabrous to sparsely pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath; petioles ca. 1.5-2.5 cm, long, softly pubescent, the stipules minute, pubescent, deciduous. Inflorescences umbellate, sessile, axil- lary, 10-15-flowered. Flowers bisexual, the pedicels 3-5 mm long (to 11 mm in fruit), pubescent; floral tube more or less campanulate, the tube ca. 1.5-2 mm long, the lobes deltoid, ca. 1.2-1.5 mm long, densely pubescent; petals short-clawed, hooded, notched apically, ca. 1 mm long; inserted at the rim of the disc; stamens 5, inserted at the rim of the disc, the anthers ca. 0.6 mm long; ovary more or less pubescent, the style ca. 0.4 mm long, the stigma 3-lobed. Drupe ovoid, green and red, more or less pubescent, ca. 6-7 mm in diameter, with 1-3 pyrenes.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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Mexico and occasionally in Central America.
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Specimen
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cmIRQui: Vicinity of Boquete, Stern et al. 1145 (GH, MO). Finca Collins, Blum & Dwyer 2532A (MO). Vicinity of Cerro Punta, Allen 1566 (MO). 1 mi. S of Cerro Punta, Tyson 5771, 5791 (both MO-).
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Note
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The Panamanian material was in early flower or fruit stages, and parts of the floral description were completed from a Mexican collection, Purpus 2061 (MO), which Wolf (op. cit., p. 117) cited as this species.
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