(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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Species
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Borojoa patinoi Cuatrecasas
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Nuevo Gen. Rubiaceae. Aug. 1949
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Note
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TYPE: Cuatrecasas 21137 (F, holo- .type).
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Description
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Trees to 7 m tall, the branchlets smooth, plane, glabrous, the bark rimose, the nodes well spaced, to 6 cm apart, the pedicel scars often prominent. Leaves elliptic, to 36 cm long, to 17 cm wide, cuneate at the apex, basally cuneate, truncate or obtuse, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, to 1.8 mm wide, obviously porcate distally, the lateral veins 13-15, widely arcuate, to 3 cm apart, usually 1-1.5 cm apart, the venules pinnatiform, spreading, discolorous, subcoriaceous, glabrous; petioles to 4 cm long, glabrous; stipules tending to per- sist, often reflexed at maturity, connate, appressed to stem, the sheath cylindrical, the parts ovate elliptic to ovate, 2.5-4 cm long, to 1.2 cm wide, acute at the apex, stiffly chartaceous with a slender, median keel, venose, the veins crowded, prom- inulous. Inflorescences terminal, the male flowers numerous, disposed in a ter- minal head about equal to the petiole; bracts disposed as 2, connate, decussate pairs, soon spreading or reflexed; bracts subtending the solitary female flower, the inner pair suborbicular, the outer pair similar in size and texture to the sti- pules. Male flowers 4-5-merous, the hypanthium and the calycine tube tubular, 0.7-0.8 cm long, glabrous, stiffly membranous, truncate, the teeth absent or vague; corolla white, to 25 mm long, the tube hippocrateriform, to 18 mm long, thickly petaloid, densely sericeous outside, the lobes 5, 6-7 mm long, oblong, obtuse, somewhat shorter than the tube; stamens 5, the anthers linear, ca. 12 mm long, the filaments slender, short; female flowers 6-7-merous; style to 7 mm long, the stigmatic lobes 6, linear lanceolate, slightly longer than the style, acute, pap-
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Habit
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Trees
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Description
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illose. Fruits sessile, rotund, applelike, 7-8 cm in diam., subtended by the per- sistent bracts, glabrous, the remains of the calyx represented by a delicate ring bordering a terminal cavity, ca. 1 mm deep, the wall very thick, 1.2 cm in diam.; seeds subplane, subovoid, 6-7 mm long, 7-12 mm wide, embedded in a pulp.
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Note
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The above description has drawn freely on Cuatrecasas (1949) as the Panama collections are sterile with one exception and this is in bud.
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Common
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Borojo Borojo Hembra
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Common
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Borojo Macho Burijo
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Note
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Duke in his Darien Ethnobotanical Dictionary states: "This favorite fruit tree, one fruit making a bowl of chicha, has followed the Choco (Indians) into Panama (from Colombia), in whose flora it is unreported." Duke adds, speaking of him- self: "I am called Borojo among the Darien Choco, because for a while, I was distributing borojo seedlings like Johnny Appleseed." He adds that the fruits are edible, are aromatic, and take more than one year to ripen.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Cerro Pirre, Bristan 495 (MO). Santa F6, Duke & Bristan 310, 311 (both MO). Rio Tucuti between Rio Tucuti and Rio Uruganti, Duke 5280 (MO). Without specific locality, Duke 8332 (MO). Finca Othon near Yape, Duke 11820 (MO). Rio Morti, Drill Site 7, ca. 250 m, Duke 14181 (MO). Rio Punusa and Rio Pucro, Duke 14637 (MO). Rio Paya, 20 minutes from mouth of Rio Paya, Kirkbride & Duke 407 (MO). SAN BLAS: Eslogandi, 200 m, Duke 10196 (MO).
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