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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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Faramea caput-anguis Dwyer & Hayden
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 55: 39. 1968.
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Note
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TYPE: Panamai, Dwyer & Gauger 7375 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Trees to 8 m tall, the branchlets smooth, drying black and glabrous, the in- ternodes to 7 cm long. Leaves oblong, to 26 cm long, to 12 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, the acumen to 1.5 cm long, acute at the base, the costa subplane above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins ca. 20, arcuate, prominent, 1-2 cm apart, the venules pinnatiform, thin coriaceous, often yellow green be- neath, minutely yellow puberulent; petioles 2-4 cm long, smooth; stipules per- sistent, triangular, to 3 cm long, to 0.8 cm wide, acute, lignose, glabrate. In- florescences usually 1 per axil; peduncles divergent, stiff, smooth, glabrous, expanding terminally, to 9 cm long; heads ovoid, apically blunt, solitary, cymose, at first gemmiform and fusiform oblong, to 2 cm long, ca. 1 cm wide, the outer bracts ca. 5, widely fusiform oblong, glabrous, foliose; flowers 7-9 per head, each
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Habit
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Trees
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Description
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pair with 2 to several bracteoles. Flowers glabrous, the calyx narrowly campan- ulate, to 8 mm long, the lobes 4, unequal, subulate, the shorter lobes ca. 4 mm long, the longer lobes ca. 8 mm long; corolla white, tube ca. 25 mm long, narrow medially, dilated above, the lobes 4, lanceolate, to 7 mm long, acute; stamens 4, the anthers linear oblong, ca. 5.5 mm long, the filaments affixed near the middle of the tube; ovules orbicular. Fruits oblong, to 1.5 cm long, to 1 cm wide including persistent calyx, smooth, glabrous, glandular shiny, drying black, the calyx 2-5 mm long.
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Cerro Jefe, Busey 791 (MO). La Eneida, Cerro Jefe, Correa & Dressler 954, 1120 (both MO). Cerro Jefe, Dwyer et al. 7248 (MO); Dwyer & Gauger 7375, 7388A (both MO); Dwyer et al. 8236 (MO). 9.4 km N of Goofy Lake, 900 m, Folsom et al. 1963A (MO). Cerro Jefe, Luteyn & Foster 1140 (MO).
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