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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 8/28/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 8/28/2013)
Species Coccocypselum lanceolatum (Ruiz & Pavon), Pers.
PlaceOfPublication Syn. PI. 1: 132. 1805.
Synonym Condalia lanceolata Ruiz & Pav6n, Fl. Peru. Chil. Prodr. 1: 54. 1798. TYPE: Peru, "in memoribus Cuchero and Chinchao, Ruiz & Pavon," not seen. Coccocypselum canescens Willd. ex C. & S., Linnaea 4: 139. 1929. TYPE: "Herb. Willd. n. 2844 (specimen Humboldtianum)," not seen. Tontanea canescens (Cham. & Schlect.) Standley, N. Amer. Fl. 32: 146. 1921.
Description Herbs, prostrate or to 25 cm tall, the stems golden green, pilose, the nodes well spaced. Leaves ovate lanceolate to oblong, often somewhat falcate, 2.0-7.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, deltoid, obtuse to occasionally rounded at the apex, basally cuneate or obtuse, occasionally truncate, acute or obtuse, usually slightly in- equilateral, the costa plane or grooved above, plane to prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 8-12, arcuate, chartaceous, densely pilose beneath and above, vel- vety to the touch, often drying olive green, the veins often bearded beneath; petioles 0.3-1.3(-3.5) cm long; stipules mostly persistent, ovate triangular, 5-6 mm long, the awn longer than the body, densely hairy. Inflorescences subsessile or on peduncles 2-3(-5) cm long, 0.1-0.3 cm wide, densely pilose. Flowers sessile, numerous; hypanthium subrotund, ca. 2 mm long, densely hairy, the calycine lobes 4, erect, ovate or oblong, 3(-6) mm long; corolla white, rarely purple, the tube 4-5 mm long, petaloid, pilose outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, oblong or triangular, ca. 2 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers sessile, attached near the middle of the tube, ovate, ca. 1 mm long; style ca. 2 mm long, the stigmas slender, about the same length as the style. Fruits bright blue, ovoid, to 7 mm in diam., pilose.
Habit Herbs
Distribution well distributed throughout Middle America and extends into Brazil and Bolivia.
Note The leaves of the Panamanian collections are smaller than those collected to the west of Panama.
Specimen CHIRIQUi: Boquete, 3800 ft, Davidson 635, 756 (both F, MO). Boquete, Llanos Francia, Dwyer & Hayden 7583 (F, GH, MO), 7602 (MO). Boquete, Road to David, Kirkbride 84 (MO). Cerro Colorado, road 35.6 km from Rio San F6lix bridge, 1390 m, Sullivan 379 (MO). Boquete, 1200-1500 m, Woodson & Schery 793 (MO). COCLi: Between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson et al. 1275 (MO). DARIEN: Gold mine, Cani, 500-600 m, Croat 37646 (MO). HERRERA: Between Las Minas and Pese, Burch et al. 1338 (MO). VERAGUAS: Trail between Cafiazas and foot of Cordillera Central, Rio Cafiazas, Allen 183 (MO). Near San Jos6 on Santiago-Santa F6 Road, 400 m, Nee 8179 (MO).
 
 
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