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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 uliginosa Swartz
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Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. Prodr. 43: 1788.
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Note
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TYPE: Jamaica, not seen.
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Synonym
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Notopleura uliginosa (Swartz) Brem., Recueil Trav. Bot. N6erl. 31: 289. 1934. Uragoga uliginosa (Swartz) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 2: 963. 1891. Psychotria laevis DC., Prodr. 4: 505. 1930. Psychotria phytolacca Spreng. ex DC., Prodr. 4: 505. 1930.
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Description
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Subshrubs to 11/2 m tall, usually ca. 1/2 m tall, the branchlets terete, smooth, drying black, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, to 24 cm long, to 11 cm wide, rounded to acute at the apex, usually with a cusp to 1.2 cm long, cuneate at the base, rarely inequilateral, the costa subplane to prom- inulous above, usually subplane beneath, the secondary veins ca. 12, widely arcuate, subplane above and beneath, the intervenal areas smooth, the veinlets not usually evident, drying dark brown or green brown above, tan beneath, gla- brescent to minutely puberulent above and beneath; petioles to 7 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide, smooth, glabrous; stipules deciduous but the bases often persistent, free, hemispherical, to 4 mm long, glabrous, stiff. Inflorescences axillary, usually ascending, the peduncles one per axil, 6-12 cm long, to 0.4 cm wide, angular, glabrous, terminated by a small aggregation of cymules, or branching dichoto- mously once or twice and terminating in conglomerate cymules, or disposed as a panicle with 1 or 2 pairs of well spaced rigid-ascending opposite branches, these terminating in conglomerate cymules, the bracteoles small. Flowers minute; hy- panthium subrotund, ca. 1 mm long, glabrous, the calycine tube 0.7-1.5 mm long, carnose, eglandular but with abundant raphides within, puberulent outside, the teeth absent or scarcely evident; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, somewhat turgid, ca. 2 mm long, carnose, glabrous outside, densely villose above the middle inside, the lobes 5, oblong, to 1.5 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide, cucullate at the apex; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, dorsifixed, the filaments short, attached near the mouth; stigmas 2. Fruits bright red, sessile, oblong or ovate oblong, to 1 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm wide, occasionally with the calycine cup persistent, to 1 mm long, each pyrene with a median rib, smooth, glabrous.
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Habit
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Subshrubs
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Distribution
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extends from southern Mexico to Colombia and Ecuador. It also occurs in the West Indies.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Rio Terebe, foothills of Cerro Bonyic, Kirkbride & Duke 412 (MO). Duweb- dulup Peak, N of Rio Terebe, Kirkbride & Duke 570 (MO). Quebrada Menaco and Buena Vista Chiriqui Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 673 (MO). Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1123 (MO). Fish Creek Moun- tains, Wedel 2229 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Rio Indio, Dodge & Allen 17302 (MO). 10 km NW of Gamboa, Nee 9601 (MO). Barro Colorado Island, Starry 90 (MO). CHIRIQUf: Cerro Colorado, 1500 m, Folsom & Collins 1762, 1811 (both MO). COCLE: El Valle, Bartlett & Lasser 16697 (MO). La Mesa, Croat 13364 (MO). Cerro Pil6n, Croat 13456 (MO). El Valle, Croat 14283 (MO). Cerro Pil6n, Duke & Lallathin 14979 (MO); Dwyer 8335 (MO). Cerro Gaital Caracoral, Dwyer & Correa 8876 (MO). Cerro Pil6n, Kirkbride 1061 (MO); Lallathin 30-4 (MO). El Valle, Lewis et al. 1776 (MO, UC); Luteyn & Kennedy 1693 (MO). Cerro Pil6n, Porter et al. 4445, 4582 (both MO). El Valle, Woodson & Schery 170 (MO). COL6N: Santa Rita Ridge, Dwyer 8562 (MO). DARIEN: Cerro Pirre, Bristan 471 (MO). Rio Pirre, Bristan 1485 (MO). Camp Summit between Morti and Sasardi, Duke 10029, 10671 (both MO). Upper Rio Membrillo and Camp 7, Duke 10925 (MO). Demartaganala (Summit Camp), Duke 15830 (MO). El Cerro, Duke & Bristan 1485 (MO). Puerto St. Dorothea, Dwyer 2262 (MO). Cana-Cuasi Trail (Camp 2) Chepigana, Terry & Terry 1434 (MO). LOS SANTOS: Loma Prieta, Duke 11850 (MO); Lewis et al. 2190 (COL, MO, UC, VEN). PANAMA: Cerro Campana, Bartlett & Lasser 16931 (MO); Croat 12154, 14199, 14719 (all MO). Cerro Azul, Dwyer 4343 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Dwyer 8221 (MO). Cerro Azul, Dwyer & Hayden 8040 (GH, MO, UC, US). Cerro Campana, Dwyer & Kirkbride 7857 (MO). Chagres, Fendler 42 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 6.9 km N of Panamerican Highway, Folsom 1443 (MO). Cerro Campana, Kirkbride 239 (MO). Cerro Trinidad, Kirkbride & Duke 1663 (MO). Cerro Campana, Lewis et al. 1940 (GH, MO, UC, US), 3060 (MO, UC, VEN); Luteyn 981 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Luteyn 1324 (MO). Trail to top of Cerro Campana, Mori & Kallunki 2743 (MO). Cerro Campana, 870-1000 m, Mori & Kallunki 3566 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 5 km N of Panamerican Highway, Nee 7925 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 16 km N of Panamerican Highway, 400-450 m, Nee & Dressler 9343 (MO). Cerro Campana, Porter et al. 4225 (MO), 4883 (COL, DUKE, MO, SCZ, UC, VEN). Cerro Azul, Tyson 2110 (MO). Cerro Campana, Witherspoon & Witherspoon 8454 (MO). SAN BLAS: El Llano to Carti Road, 16.5 km N of Panamerican Highway, Folsom 2594 (MO). VERA- GUAS: Santa Fe, Cerro Tute, 2500 ft, Allen 4370 (MO). Caribbean slope above Rio Primero Brazo, 700-1200 m, Croat 23242 (MO). Valley Rio Dos Bocas, 15.6 km NW of Santa Fe, 450-550 m, Croat 27602 (MO). Above Santa Fe beyond Escuela Agricola Interam., Croat 34181 (MO). 0.2 mi beyond fork road to Escuela Agricola Alto Piedras, Croat & Folsom 33847 (MO). 7 km NW, road to Santa Fe, D'Arcy 10277 (MO). 8.9-5.0 m N of Santa Fe, 500-1000 m, Gentry 2976 (MO). Above Santa Fe, Cerro Tute, 1200-1400 m, Gentry 6239 (MO). Mouth of Rio Concepcion, Lewis et al. 2800 (COL, MO, UC, VEN). N of Santa Fe, ca. 2 km N of Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedras, Mori & Kallunki 2570 (MO). Cerro Tute, 750-1000 ft, 10 km NW of Santa Fe, Mori et al. 7538 (MO). 3-4 km by road W of Santa Fe, ca. 2500 ft, Nee 11302 (MO).
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