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(Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria viridis Ruiz & Pavon
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Fl. Peruv. Chil. 2: 61. 1799.
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Synonym
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Psychotria glomerata H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pt. 3: 362. 1820. TYPE: Costa Rica, Oersted 11610 (US, isotype). Psychotria microdesmia Oerst., Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 1852: 36. 1852. TYPE: Costa Rica, ?Oersted, not seen. Uragoga glomerata (H.B.K.) Kuntze., Rev. Gen. 3: 299. 1891. Uragoga viridis (Ruiz & Pav6n) Kuntze., Rev. Gen. 3: 301. 1891.
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Description
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Small trees or shrubs, the twiglets slender, smooth, glabrous or puberulent, terete but ultimately angular, the nodes well spaced. Leaves elliptic, elliptic ob- long or obovate oblong, often falcate, occasionally inequilateral, 6-14 cm long, 2.0-4.5 cm wide, acute to rounded or obtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen usually widely triangular, to 0.8 cm long, ultimately obtuse, usually attenuate acute at the base, the costa plane above, subprominent beneath, the lateral veins 7-10, arcuate, joining to form a vague, undulate submarginal vein to 2 mm from the margin, stiffly papyraceous, concolorous, usually drying brown, glabrate to minutely golden pubescent above and beneath; petioles 0.3-1.0 cm long; stipules free, oblong or ovate oblong, to 2 cm long, usually deltoid or conspicuously narrow toward the apex, stiffly scarious, ciliate, otherwise glabrate, usually mod-
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Habit
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Small trees or shrubs
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Description
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erately carinate, longitudinally venose. Inflorescences terminal, spreading, panic- ulate, usually shorter than the uppermost leaves; peduncles 2-3 cm long, angular, glabrate, the rachis zigzag, the branches few, usually opposite, the flowers dis- posed in well separated, few-flowered glomerules giving a spikelike appearance, the bracts caducous. Flowers sessile, minute; hypanthium short, rounded basally, puberulent, the calycine cup scarcely measurable, truncate, the teeth absent; corolla greenish white or white, the lobes 5, deltoid, apparently longer than the tube, to 1 mm long, densely white villose within; anthers subsessile, oblong, 0.35 mm long; ovarian disc compressed rotund, 0.6 mm long, the style ca. 0.4 mm long, conspicuously swollen above the middle, the stigmas ca. 0.15 mm long. Fruits sessile, oblong, 4-5 mm long, truncate at the apex, rounded at the base, drying dark, distinctly costate, glabrate, the calycine cup, if persistent, very short.
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Distribution
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extends from Belize to Bolivia. It also occurs in Cuba.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Peak between Rio Balsa and Rio Areti, ca. 300 ft, Duke 8745 (MO). Puerto St. Dorotea, Dwyer 2218 (MO). PANAMA: Between Cerro Jefe and La Eneida, 2100-2900 ft, Dwyer 8210 (MO). Panamerican Highway, E of Bayano Bridge, Folsom 1388 (MO). Bayano Cuipo Forest, 34.6 km E of Bayano Bridge, Folsom 3534 (MO). Road from El Llano to Carti-Tupile near Continental Divide, 300-500 m, Liesner 1280 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road 16-181/2 km by road N of Panamerican Highway, 400-450 m, Nee & Tyson 10937 (MO); Tyson & Nee 7318 (MO). Cerro Azul to Cerro Jefe, Tvson et al. 4237 (MO). SAN BLAS: Trail E of Cangandi-Mandinga airport road, 2-5 mi E of Mandinga Airport, Duke 14774 (MO). COLOMBIA: CHOCO: Between Rio Curiche and Alto Curiche, Duke 9581 (MO). Madurex Logging Camp, Duke 9933 (MO). Between Rio Nercua-Quebrada Barrial and Quebrada Ambrosio near Camp Curiche, 10-294 m, Duke 11469 (MO). Rio Salaqui, Hydro Camp, 100 ft, Duke 15777 (MO). Rain forest, hill N of Alto Curiche, 300 m, Duke & Idrobo 11223 (NY).
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