(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 pedicellata Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panamai, Croat 25937 (MO, holotype; NY, isotype).
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Description
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Trees 5-10 m tall, to 22 d.b.h., the branchlets terete, glabrous, the bark dis- colorous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves ovate-oblong, 6-19 cm long, 2.3-10 cm wide, widely deltoid toward the apex, attenuate-acuminate, the acumen to 1 cm long, falcate, ultimately acute, basally acute or cuneate, rarely obtuse, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lat-eral veins 12-14, rigid, especially prominent beneath, subcoriaceous, discolorous, above dark brown, yellow brown beneath, golden pilose with the veinlets pinnately disposed; petioles rigid, woody, to 1.5 cm long, the hairs golden, spreading or appressed; stipules not seen. In- florescences terminal (in fruit) radially-umbelliform, to 5 cm long, the peduncle absent, the pedicels to 1.5 cm long, rigid, puberulent. Flowers not seen except for a fragment of the calyx; calycine cup cylindrical, to 5 mm long, ca. 4 mm widej truncate, ciliate without and within, the hairs golden, appressed, the teeth 5, triangular-subulate, to 0.3 mm long, these arising from a thin keel on the body of the cup. Fruits ovate-oblong or oblong-rotund, to 1.5 cm long, black when dry, purple brown, lightly puberulent.
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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It is readily distinguished by the long-pedicellate fruits and presumably flowers disposed in the form of an umbel.
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Specimen
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COCL9: Lumber camp at Alto Calvaro, 7 km'N of El Cope, 900 m, Folsom 1290 (MO). VERAGUAS: Road between Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra and Rio Dos Bocas, 730-770 m, Croat 25937 (MO). NW of Santa F6, 8.8 km from Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra, Mori et al. 4001 (MO).
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