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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Species
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Deppea panamensis Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panamai, Mori & Kallunki 4965 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Trees to 8 m, the branches numerous, the branchlets often drying yellow gray, the bark rough, cracking, glabrous, the nodes crowded at the apex of the twigs. Leaves lanceolate or obovate oblong, 8-15 cm long, 2.5-5.0 cm wide, obtuse, deltoid or subobtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1 cm long, acute to attenuate acute at the base, the costa prominulous above and beneath, often drying dull red beneath, the lateral veins 9-11, prominulous, arcuate, the sub- marginal undulate vein well set in from the margin, the intervenal areas smooth, mosaiclike under magnification, the veinlets immersed, stiffly chartaceous, con- colorous, glabrate above, minutely puberulent on the costa and the veins beneath, minutely white barbate in the leaf axils; petioles slender to 2.5 cm long; stipules apparently connate, cylindrical, 2.5-3.5 mm long, truncate or each part with a notch extending to the middle, coriaceous, minutely puberulent. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal paniculate, puberulent, to 10 cm long, 8-10 cm wide, the peduncle suppressed, 3 branches arising from the twiglet tip, the middle one projecting upward as a rachis, or with the peduncle 2-4 cm long, slender, deli- cately winged, to 1.2 mm wide, bearing several well-spaced branches along its length, at least those below the middle of the rachis opposite, the uppermost often alternate, the inferior branches to 10 cm long, branching, the secondary branches producing several few-flowered cymules, or occasionally the flowers solitary. Flowers not seen except for the hypanthium, calyx and ovarian disc, these measuring ca. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; hypanthium turbinate, the calycine cup scarcely measurable, the teeth ca. 0.15 mm long. Fruits pedicellate, rotund, to 2 mm long, glabrous, shiny, loculicidally dehiscent almost to the base, the 4 resulting segments each with 3 delicate ribs, venose, the persistent ovarian disc in the unopened fruit moderately prominent, umbonate; seeds oblong or trape- ziform, to 0.25 mm long, somewhat plano compressed, verrucose, honey colored.
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Habit
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Trees
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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 by its minute fruit which separates to the base into 4 parts.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: 5-10 km NE Altos de Pacora, Mori & Kallunki 4965 (MO).
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