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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 talamancarum Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 332. 1929.
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Note
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TYPE: Costa Rica. Carleton 135 (F, holotype, US).
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Description
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Trees to 15 ft tall, the branches slender, terete, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong to obovate oblong, to 17 cm long, to 6 cm wide, cuspidate, the cusp to 1.5 cm long, erect or falcate, to 0.25 cm wide, obtuse, cuneate or acute at the base, scarcely inequilateral, the costa slender, prominu- lous above and beneath, the secondary veins 10-15, almost perpendicular, the submarginal vein not elevated or impressed, membranous to chartaceous, con- colorous; petioles to 1 cm long, glabrous; stipules persistent, connate, the sheath cylindrical, 2-5 mm long, the awn 4-5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, paniculate, cymose corymbose, 8-10 cm long, glabrous, sometimes the peduncle absent and usually 3 branches arising from the stem tip, sometimes 2-3 cm long, ca. 0.15 cm wide, the branches spreading or strongly ascending, in 2 or more pairs, opposite, 2-4 cm long. Flowers with the pedicels slender, 8-10 mm long; hypanthium compressed rotund, to 0.7 mm long, carnose, glabrous, the calycine cup inflated, glabrous, ca. 0.6 mm long, with several rubescent glandular spots within, the teeth 4, deltoid, to 0.3 mm long, acute; corolla blue, the tube narrow cylindrical, expanding apically, 10-17 mm long, the lobes oblong, to 6.5 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers narrowly oblong, 2.8-4 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide, obtuse, cordate at the base, the filaments dorsifixed, to 1 mm long, attached above the middle of the tube; ovarian disc coroniform, to 0.35 mm long, the stigmas 2, upright, scarcely thicker than the style, 1-1.5 mm long, the style 1.8-3 mm long, ca. 0.2 mm wide, the ovules about as long as broad. Fruits not seen.
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Trees
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Distribution
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known from Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Rio Teribe, between Quebrada Huron & Quebrada Schlunyik, Kirkbride & Duke 496 (MO). Duwebdulup Peak, N Rio Teribe, Kirkbride & Duke 584 (MO). Fish Creek Mts, Wedel 2191 (F, MO), 2243 (MO, US). coL6N: Santa Rita Ridge, Dwyer 8555 (MO). DARIEN: Airstrip, Cana gold mine, 480 m, Croat 37968 (MO). Paya, Stern et al. 230 (MO, US). Cana, Stern et al. 656 (MO).
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