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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Species
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Faramea bullata Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 294. 1929.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Cooper 507 (F, holotype; NY, isotype).
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, 2-4.5 m tall, glabrous, the branchlets smooth, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong, 15-21.5 cm long, 5.5-7 cm wide, acuminate, the acumen ca. 2 cm long, basally cordate or occasionally rounded, the costa prominent, the lateral veins ca. 15, immersed above, with 1-2 somewhat irregular intermediate veins between pairs of lateral veins, the submarginal veins 2, the outermost ca. 1.5 mm from the margin, the other ca. 5 mm from the margin, subcoriaceous, shiny green above, bullate, glaucescent and pruinose beneath; petioles ca. 0.5 cm long, glabrous; stipules presumably connate basally, each part oblong rotund, ca. 8 mm long, tapering acutely toward the apex, the awn subulate, to 1/3 the length of the sheath, coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescences cymose paniculate, to 7.5 cm long, often almost as wide as long; peduncle thick or slender, to 3 cm long, the branches few, angular ascending; pedicels 2-6 mm long. Flowers with hypan- thium and calycine cup short, the teeth triangular or subulate, to 1 mm long; corolla blue or bluish white, the tube ca. 9 mm long, ca. 1.2 mm wide in bud. Fruits compressed rotund, to 1.5 cm wide, smooth, ca. twice as long as wide, drying black, smooth, glabrous; "seed gray, deeply and narrowly exsculpate at the base, smooth, ca. 1 cm long" (fide Standley).
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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In preparing the above descrip- tion I have drawn freely from Standley's original description.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Kankintoe, 10 mi above Holstein near Almirante, Cooper 507 (F, NY, US). Punta Penia, Chiriquicito, Lewis et al. 2145 (F, MO). VERAGUAS: Caribbean slope above Rio Primero Brazo,'5 mi NW of Santa F6, Liesner 965 (MO).
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