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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria deflexa DC.
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Prodr. 4: 510. 1830.
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Note
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TYPE: Surinam, Collector un- known (MO, photo of isotype (?) in Delessert Herb.).
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Synonym
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Psychotria patens of auth., not Swartz, Psychotria flexuosa of auth., not Willd.,
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Description
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Shrubs to 2 m tall, ultimately angular, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced, usually 3.5-14.0 cm apart. Leaves oblong lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, (4.5-)8.0-14.0 cm long, 1.0-5.5 cm wide, acute or rarely tapering obtusely, with a vague, often falcate, rounded acumen, to 2 cm long, obtuse or cuneate at the base, often slightly inequilateral, the costa slender, prominulous or plane above, plane beneath, the lateral veins 6-9, with 1-4 irregular and soon branching smaller veins between a pair of lateral veins, the secondary veins pinnatiform, stiffly chartaceous, concolorous, drying green or occasionally brown, glabrous; petioles 0.5-1.0 cm long, glabrous, the lamina slightly decurrent adaxially; stipules con- nate, to 9 mm long, the sheath 1-2 mm long, truncate, the awns 2 per part, subulate, 2-7 mm long, acute, occasionally puberulent. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, glabrous or puberulent, often narrowly oblong, 8-15 cm long, 3-4(-8) cm wide, the peduncles 3-7 cm long, slender, occasionally flexuous, to 0.8 mm wide, the branches short, numerous, opposite or alternate, strict or arcuate, oc- casionally deflexed, the lowermost to 3 cm long, the branchlets few, often zig- zag. Flowers sessile or pedicellate; hypanthium 0.5 mm long, glabrous or puber- ulent, the calycine cup short, 0.15 mm long with several minute, appressed glands within, the lobes 5, triangular, 0.3 mm long; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, 3 mm long, expanded near the mouth, puberulent outside, villose within above the filament attachment, the lobes 5, oblong, 0.5 mm long, obtuse or acute; sta- mens 5, included or exserted, the anthers oblong, 0.7 mm long, the filaments slightly unequal, 1.5 mm long, attached in the upper 2/3 of the tube; ovarian disc annular, 0.25 mm wide, the styles of 2 lengths, 2.0-3.5 mm long, the stigmas oblong, 0.35-1.00 mm long. Fruits didymous, each pyrene rotund, to 3 mm in diam., drying green or black, the dorsal face somewhat costate, the ventral face of the endocarp with a groove.
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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a common species in the lowlands of tropical America.
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Note
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It has often been filed in herbaria under P. patens Swartz.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Between Buena Vista Coffee Finca and Cerro Pil6n, Kirkbride & Duke 686 (F, MO), 711 (MO). Fish Creek, Wedel 2216 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Juan Mina, Bartlett & Lasser 16564 (MO). Between Fort Sherman and Fort Lorenzo, Croat 15413 (MO). Coco Solo weather station, Duke 4271 (MO). K-6 Road, Dwyer 3025 (MO). Coco Solo, Dwyer & Duke 7870 (GH, MO, UC, US). George Greene Memorial, Madden Forest, Dwyer & Hayden 12 (MO). Coco Solo, Gentry 6070 (MO). Mandingo Road near Empire, Hayden 514 (MO). Pipeline Road, Mori & Kallunki 2414 (MO). Gaillard Highway, 2 km NW of Summit Gardens, Nee 7445 (MO). Splice S16 and S49, Rio Indio, Steyermark & Allen 17453 (MO). 1 mi N of Summit Garden, Tyson & Blum 1966 (MO). Pipeline Road, Wither- spoon & Witherspoon 8627 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Aviles 47 (MO); Croat 4042 (F, MO), 4146, 5931, 6191, 6257, 6395, 6420, 6620, 6650, 8094, 10348, 10843, 10844, 10972 (all MO), 11093 (F, MO), 11135, 11926, 11995, 15587 (all MO); Ebinger 18, 183 (both MO); Hayden 27, 31, 130 (all MO); Killip 39964 (MO); Shattuck 627, 931 (both MO); Starry 169, 322 (both MO); Tyson & Blum 1961 (MO). COCLE: Cerro Pil6n, Croat 13450 (MO). El Valle, Dwyer & Correa 7972 (MO). DARIEN: Rio Yap6, Bristan 1385 (MO). Without other locality, Duke 8334 (MO). Confluence of Rio Balsa and Rio Areti, Duke 8742 (MO). Morti Hydro, Rio Morti, Duke 15821 (MO). Between Paya and Palo de los Letras, Duke & Kirkbride 14031 (F, MO). Rio Tuquesa, Tuquesa Mining Camp, "Charco Chiva," Mori 6989 (MO). Rio Tuquesa, middle Tuquesa Mining Co. camp "Charco Peje," Mori 7016 (MO). Cand, Stern et al. 521, 695 (both MO). Campamento Buena Vista, Stern et al. 909 (MO). Periaque Hill near Rio Sabana and Rio Lara, Tyson 4729 (MO). 3 mi E of Santa Fe, Tyson et al. 4695 (MO). Pipeline Road, 5.3 km from entrance, Witherspoon & Witherspoon 8627 (MO). HERRERA: Between Las Minas and Pes6, Duke 12344 (MO). PANAMA: Rio la Maestra, Allen 37 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Croat 13042 (MO); D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6243 (MO). Rio Pita near confluence with Rio Maestra, Duke 4765 (MO). Midway between El Llano and Rio Mamoni, Duke 5595 (MO). Pirid-Cafiasas Trail near Pirid, Duke 14351 (MO). Cerro Azul, Dwyer 1375, 2055 (both MO). Goofy Lake to ca. 8 mi S, Dwyer 7101 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Dwyer & Gauger 7393 (GH, MO). Goofy Lake to 1.5 mi S, Dwyer & Hayden 8025 (GH, MO, UC, US). Cerro Campana, Dwyer et al. 4720 (MO, SCZ), 7815 (MO, UC). Rio Maestro, Gentry 2216 (F, MO). Cerro Jefe, Gentry 6787 (F, MO). Fort San Lorenzo, Hayden 111 (MO). San Jos6 Island, Johnston 49 (MO). Cerro Campana, Kirkbride & Hayden 296 (F, MO). Cerro Campana, Lewis et al. 3068 (MO, UC). Chimdn, Lewis et al. 3255 (MO, UC). Cerro Campana, McDaniel 6911 (MO). 6.5 km by road N of Lago Cerro Azul, Nee 9307 (MO). 1 mi N of Goofy Lake, Oliver et al. 2673 (COL, DUKE, K, MO, NY, UC, VEN). Cerro Azul, Tyson 2112, 4320 (both MO). SAN BLAS: E of Cangandi-Mandinga Road, Duke 14760 (MO), 14762 (MO, OH). Rio Diabolo and Rio Acuati near Nargana, Duke 14883 (MO). Ailigandi, Dwyer 6836, 6850 (both MO). Headwaters of Rio Mu- latupo, Elias 1730 (GH, MO, US). Playon Chico, Gentry 6393 (MO). 3-4 hours up Rio Mulutupu, Kirkbride 227 (MO). VERAGUAS: Isla de Coiba, Dwyer 2320 (MO). Cerro de Tut6, Dwyer 4846 (MO). 3.9-5.0 m N of Santa Fe, Gentry 2973 (MO).
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