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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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Species
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Amaioua magnicarpa Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Dwyer 9552 (MO).
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Description
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Trees 6-15 m tall, the branchlets ultimately angular, the older bark cracking, ashen grey when dry, glabrous, the nodes somewhat swollen, moderately crowd- ed. Leaves oblong lanceolate or oblong rotund, 11.5-17 cm long, 5-9 cm wide, deltoid to obtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen short, 0.4-1 cm long, obtuse or acute, often falcate, basally cuneate obtuse, scarcely inequilateral, the costa slender above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 13, at first strict, then arcuate toward the margins, the secondary veins perpendicular, subcoriaceous, concolorous, glabrous except appressed-white ciliate on the costa and veins, the minute raphides often abundant above, the margin lightly revolute; petioles to 1.5
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Trees
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Description
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cm long, to 2.2 mm wide, rigid, densely appressed villose. Flowers not seen. Fruits red, cherry-like, rotund, 1 ;8-2.2-cm long, obtuse at the apex and base, often umbonate at the apex, puberulent,, with the scars of the floral parts scarcely elevated, ca. 0.5 cm in diam.
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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It is distinguished from the relatively common A. corymbosa (Willd.) H.B.K. by having much larger fruit which resemble cultivated commercial- cherries.
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Specimen
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COLON: Santa Rita Ridge, ca. 2000 ft, Dwyer 9552 (MO).'9.4 'km N of Goofy Lake, Folsom et al. 1976 (MO). PANAMA: El Llano-Carti 10-12 km from junction Inter-American Highway, Mori & Kallunki 2880 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 1.7 km- from Inter-American Highway, Mori, Gentry & Kallunki 4691 (MO).
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