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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 furcata DC.
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Prodr. 4: 512. 1830.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Haenke, not seen.
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Description
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Shrubs 1-3 m tall, the branchlets slender, terete, often wiry, ultimately plane, puberulent. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, ovate oblong, lanceolate or oblong sub- rotund, 4.5-18.0 cm long, 1.5-7.5 cm wide, acute at the apex, usually contracted into a conspicuous acumen, attenuate, acute or obtuse at the base, often inequi- lateral, the costa slender, plane or prominulous above, prominulous to prominent beneath, the lateral veins 7-11, arcuate, prominulous, the smaller veins irregular perpendicular, membranous, glabrous or puberulent above, puberulent beneath, occasionally with white, strigose hairs; petioles 0.2-1.6 cm long; stipules connate, to 0.5 cm long, the sheath compressed cylindrical, often less than 1 mm long, each 1/2 with 2 subulate, erect or spreading awns, slightly longer than or to 5 times as long as the sheath, puberulent. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, subcapitate, to 2 cm long; peduncles to 1.5 cm long; bracts large, linear or linear ovate, to 2.5 cm long, puberulent, usually reflexed. Flowers minute, sessile, the buds 3 mm long; hypanthium 0.4 mm long, the calycine cup 0.3 mm long, eglandular within, petaloid, venose, ciliolate, the teeth 5, triangular, about as long as the calycine cup; corolla white, cylindrical, the bud clavate, 2 mm long, petaloid, puberulent outside, puberulent within at filament attachment; stamens 4-5, the anthers linear oblong, ca. 1 mm long, the filaments short; style to 2 mm long, the stigmatic area of the style wider than the basal portion, the stigmatic lobes oblong. Fruits ro- tund, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., glabrous, drying purple or black, the pyrenes with the dorsal face 4-6-ribbed.
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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known from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.
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Specimen
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Without locality, Duke 8767 (MO). BOCAS DEL TORO: Almirante, Blum 1358 (MO). Chiriquicito, Lewis et al. 2058 (GH, MO, US). Water Valley, Wedel 659, 1637 (both MO). Old Bank Island, Wedel 1925, 2122 (both MO). Rio Cricamola, between Finca St. Louis and Konkintoe, Woodson et al. 1881 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Pipeline Road, Croat 12365 (MO). Escobal, Croat 12463 (MO). Between Fort Sherman and Fort San Lorenzo, Croat 15412 (MO). Summit Garden, Croat 16561 (MO). Fort Sher- man, Duke 9243 (MO). K-6 Road, Dwyer 2859 (MO). Albrook, Dwyer 6733 (MO). George Greene Memorial, Dwyer & Hayden 11 (MO). Road to Pina, Luteyn 1407 (MO). France Field, Standley 30203 (US). Navy Pipeline Road, Stimson 5341 (MO). Gamboa, Tyson 1519, 4561 (both MO). Fort Sherman, Tyson & Blum 1660 (MO). Pipeline Road, Witherspoon & Witherspoon 8290 (MO, US). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Aviles 45 (MO); Croat 4035, 6478, 11334, 11432, 11833 (all MO); Ebinger 548 (MO); Kenoyer 560 (US); Shattuck 84 (MO); Standley 40886 (US); Starry 36 (MO); Welch 19841 (MO). CHIRIQUI: Boquete, Ebinger 752 (MO). DARIEN: 10 mi S of El Real, Duke 5417 (MO). Pucro, Duke 13007 (MO). Rio Morti, Drill Site 7, Duke 14189 (MO). Cerro Pirre, Duke & Elias E 13673 (MO). Paya, Duke & Kirkbride 14011 (MO). Rio Tuquesa, Tuquesa Mining Co. Camp called Charco Peje, Mori 7083 (MO, US). LOS SANTOS: Rio Pedregal, 25 mi SW of Tonosi, Lewis et al. 2891 (COL, DUKE, K, MO, NY, UC, VEN). PANAMA: Juan Mina, Bartlett & Lasser 16559 (MO). Rio Maestra, Duke 4766 (MO). Cerro Jefe near Rio Indio, Duke 15237 (MO). Cerro Azul, Dwyer 3109 (MO). San Jose Island, Johnston 87 (MO, US). Gorgas Memorial Lab, ca. 25 km NE of Cerro Azul on Rio Piedras, 550 m, Mori & Kallunki 3270 (MO). Quebrada Ancha, Steyermark & Allen 17110 (MO). SAN BLAS: Rio Cuadi, 6 air mi SW of Mulatupu, Duke 14214 (MO). Rio Diabolo and Rio Acuati, Duke 14873 (MO). Rio Cuadi, Camp Diabolo, Drill site 22, Duke et al. 3617 (MO, UC, VEN). COLOMBIA: CHOCO: Camp Curiche and Quebrada Changame, 3.7 mi S of Camp Curiche, Duke & Idrobo 11580 (NY).
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