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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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Antirhea trichantha (Griseb.) Hemsley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Biol. Centr. Amer., Bot. 2: 42. 1881.
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Synonym
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Pittoniotis trichantha Griseb., Bonplandia 6: 8. 1858. TYPE: Duchaissing (? P, not seen).
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Description
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Trees to 10 m tall, the twiglets round, smooth, drying black, glabrous or puberulent. Leaves oblong to ovate-rotund, 6-21 cm long, 2.5-8.5 cm wide, sub- equilateral, deltoid to rounded at the apex, often contracted into a narrow cusp to 2 cm long, usually acute, occasionally obtuse, basally acute to cuneate, the costa subplane above, prominulous to subprominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 12, arcuate, the intervenal areas irregular pinnatiform, chartaceous, discolo- rous, densely strigillose above, densely pilose or villose beneath; petioles slender or stout, to 3 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, pilose; stipules persistent or decidous, appressed to the stem, triangular subulate, to 1.5 cm long, pilose. Inflorescences several at apices of the twiglets, axillary, spreading; peduncles usually wiry, 4- 7 cm long, ca. 0.8-1.5 mm wide, strict or flexuous, with a few alternate flexuous branches, these spreading, either with few flowers or occasionally with flowers densely congested, the flowers secundly disposed. Flowers with hypanthium ob- long rotund or oblong, ca. 1.5 mm long, densely pubescent, the calycine cup short, the teeth 5, oblong rotund, to 0.4 mm long, obtuse, petaloid, pubescent on the margin and outside; corolla white with the tube narrowly cylindrical or nar- rowly funnelform, 2.5-3 mm long, ca. 0.6 mm wide, petaloid, glabrous within, the lobes 5, oblong, about as long as the tube, densely villose above; stamens 5, exserted, the anthers linear oblong, 1.6-2 mm long, villose, the filaments linear, elongate, 0.5-2 mm long, attached at the corolla mouth; stigmas linear oblong, ?2 the length of the style, the style slender but dilated below stigmas. Fruits drupaceous, drying red, fleshy, oblong, 0.5-0.8 mm long, usually twice as long
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Trees
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Description
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as wide, capped by a calycine cup to 0.8 mm long, drying black or brown, gla- brate, delicately longitudinally veined, seed solitary ca. 5 mm long, unilaterally grooved.
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Distribution
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Antirhea trichantha is known only from Panama. Few collections have been made outside the Canal Zone.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Victoria Fill, Allen 1761 (MO). Chiva-Chiva Road, 1 mi E of Gaillard Highway, Blum 468 (MO). Albrook Tower, vicinity TTC site, Blum 551 (MO). C-15 Road to TTC Albrook Tower, Blum 2240 (MO). Vicinity of Rio Cocoli, Road K-9, Chambers et al. 37 (MO). Madden Forest Preserve, Correa 146 (MO). Gaillard Highway near Penitentiary, Croat 9311 (MO). Road C 2 F, ?/ mi NW Summit Naval Radio Station, Croat 11033 (MO). Fort Kobbe, Duke & Mussell 6667 (MO). Power Station near Fort Kobbe, Dwyer 2668 (MO). US Army TTC, Albrook, Dwyer 6727 (MO). Madden Dam, Dwyer & Elias 7477 (GH, MO, US). Madden Dam, Boy Scout Road, Dwyer & Lallathin 8579, 8824 (both MO). Madden Dam, Dwyer & Robyns 24 (MO). Farfan Beach Road, Gentry 4901 (MO). Navy Pipeline Preserve, 3 mi NW Gamboa, Haines 509 (MO). Madden Dam, Holdridge 6248 (MO). Madden Dam, Boy Scout Road, Kirkbride 45 (MO). Farfan Beach, Kirkbride & Elias 74 (MO). US Navy Ammunition Depot, 2 mi NW of Balboa, Luteyn & Foster 930 (MO). Howard Air Force Base, SE Kobbe Beach, Oliver & MacBryde 1874 (MO). Madden Dam, Boy Scout Road, Porter et al. 4015 (COL, DUKE, MO, SCZ, UC, VEN). Naval Ammunition Depot, Stern et al. 38 (MO). Farfan Beach, Tyson 1824 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Croat 4971, 6336, 10391, 11973, 14255 (all MO). DARIEN: Rio Pucro below village of Pucro, Duke 13134 (MO). El Punteadero bridge, over Rio Chucunaque, Stern et al. 149 (MO). PANAMA: Mocambo, Croat 14906 (MO). Rio Pita, Duke 4800 (MO). Chilibre, Lao & Holdridge 8 (MO). 6 km SW Arraijan, old road to Bique, Nee 6890 (MO).
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