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(Last Modified On 8/21/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/21/2013)
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Species
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Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 94. 1893.
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Synonym
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Lonicera alba L., Sp. P1. 175. 1753. TYPE: not seen. Chioccoca racemosa L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 917. 1759. TYPE: not seen. Chioccoca macrocarpa Mart. & Gal., Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(1): 231. 1844. TYPE: not seen. Chioccoca petensis Lundell, Wrightia 5: 7. 1972. TYPE: Guatemala, Contreras 2439 (LL). Chioccoca vestita Lundell, Wrightia 5: 8. 1972. TYPE: Belize, Lundell 16425 (LL). Chioccoca vestita var. glaberrima Lundell, Wrightia 5: 9. 1972. TYPE: not seen.
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Description
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Vines or shrubs (trees?), the twiglets smooth, glabrous, usually ultimately wiry, the branchlets perpendicular, opposite. Leaves ovate oblong, oblong, rarely rotund, 2.2-13.5 cm long, 1.3-6.0 cm wide, tapering acutely, obtuse or somewhat rounded toward the apex, often acuminate, the acumen often arising from a con- tracted apex, 1.0-1.5 cm long, acute or obtuse, often falcate, basally acute, at- tenuate acute, obtuse or rounded, the costa slender, prominulous above and beneath, the lateral veins 4-5, arcuate, uniting to form a submarginal vein 4-5 mm from the margin in the larger blades, the intervenal areas smooth, the fine endings of the venules regularly evanescent, stiffly papyraceous to subcoriaceous, usually glossy above, glabrous; petioles to 0.8 cm long, glabrous; stipules often persistent, widely triangular to oblong, 1.5-5.0 mm long, acute or contracted at the apex into a median subulate awn, to 4 times the length of the body. Inflores- cences axillary, solitary, or often 2 per node, 2.5-8.0 cm long, racemiform or paniculate, the flowers occasionally solitary or in sessile cymules; peduncles slen- der, 0.7-7.0 cm long, ca. 0.35 mm wide, glabrous, the lowermost branches to 4.5 cm long. Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels 2-5 mm long; hypanthium subrotund, somewhat compressed, glabrous, the calycine cup ca. 1 mm long, the teeth acute, 5, about as long as the carnose, glabrous, eglandular cup; corolla white or yellow, urn shaped, 3-4 mm long, glabrous inside and out, petaloid, the lobes 5, oblong, slightly shorter than the tube, tapering obtusely; stamens 5, the anthers at first linear, then narrowly oblong, ca. 4 mm long at anthesis, the filaments slender, 1.2 mm long, pubescent, at the very base connate into a ring adnate to the corolla tube; style linear, 5-6 mm long, the stigmatic area turgid, to 1.3 mm long, the 2 lobes obtuse. Fruits white, fleshy, compressed, 4-8 mm in diam., the persistent calyx short.
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Habit
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Vines or shrubs (trees?)
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Distribution
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ranges from southern Texas through Central America south to Argentina. It also occurs in the West Indies
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Common
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Lagrimas de Maria
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Bocas, Maccaw Hills, Wedel 553 (MO). Water Valley, Wedel 1408, 1732, 1787 (all MO). CANAL ZONE: Fort Sherman, Croat 14154, 15425 (both MO). Madden Forest, Croat 15266 (MO). Fort Kobbe, Duke 4207, 4716 (both MO). Albrook, Dwyer 6707 (MO). Madden Dam, Dwyer & Elias 7492 (GH, MO, UC, US); Ebinger 1960 (MO); Kirkbride 55 (MO). Farfan Beach Road, Kirkbride & Elias 65 (MO). Rio Petitpie, road to Ft. Sherman from Gatun Locks (S2 or 82), Mori & Kallunki 2693 (MO). Cocoli, Tyson 1627 (MO). Fort Sherman, Tyson & Blum 3750 (MO). Curundu, Tyson & Dwyer 4466 (MO). Fort Kobbe, Woodson et al. 1415 (MO). Salamanca Hydrographic Sta- tion, Rio Pequeni, Woodson et al. 1594 (MO). CHIRIQUi: Boquete, Davidson 782 (MO). COCLE: El Valle, Woodson et al. 741, 1253, 1760 (all MO). COLON: Portobelo, D'Arcy 4011 (MO). 4 km E of Buena Vista, Nee 6796 (MO). Achiote, Tyson et al. 4538 (MO). DARIEN: Pucro to Rio Pucro, Duke 5369 (MO). Pifias, Duke 10586, 10600, 10639 (all MO). Chepigana, Duke & Bristan 8 [#278 ?] (MO). HERRERA: Las Minas and Pese, Burch et al. 1322 (GH, K, MO, NY, UC, US). 12.5 mi S of Ocu, Lewis et al. 1635 (GH, MO, UC, US). LOS SANTOS: Loma Prieta, Duke 11886 (MO). Los Asientos, Wendehake 35 (MO). PANAMA: Nuevo Emperador, Baker 22 (MO). Cerro Campana, Bartlett & Lasser 16908 (MO). Caldzada Larga, Croat 12392 (MO). Chame, Dodge 16731 (MO). Rio Canfita, Duke 3841 (MO). Rio Mamoni, Duke 5681 (MO). Cerro Campana, Duke 8668 (MO). Isla del Rey, Duke 10422 (MO). Coronado Beach, Duke 11814 (MO). San Jose Island, Duke 12517 (MO). Cerro Azul, Dwyer 1509 (MO). Cerro Campana, Dwyer & Kirkbride 7823 (GH, MO). Cerro Azul, Ebinger 1960 (MO). Cerro Campana, Ebinger 1960 (MO). Chagres, Fendler 138 (MO). Panama Vieja, Maurice 797 (MO). Playa de Venado, Mejia 3 (MO). Old Fort Lorenzo, Tyson 1585 (MO). El Llano, Tyson 1742-A (MO). Cerro Azul, Tyson 2093 (MO). Playa Grande, San Jose Island, Tyson & Loftin 5088 (MO). Arraijan, Woodson et al. 1404 (MO). VERAGUAS: Rio Los Chorros, San Francisco, Dwyer 1354 (MO). Near Ponuga, Dwyer & Kirkbride 7439 (GH, MO, UC, US). Sond, Woodson et al. 545 (MO). SAN BLAS: Soskatupu, Duke 8967 (MO); Elias 1693 (GH, MO, US).
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