(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 ovalis Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 138. 1916.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Pittier 3159 (US, holotype; C, BM, isotypes).
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Description
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Trees 3-13 m tall, the twiglets slender, the nodes well spaced, glabrous. Leaves small, oval, oblong rotund, or lanceolate, 4-9 cm long, 1.2-4.8 cm wide, rounded, obtuse, or cuneate at the apex, abruptly short acuminate, the acumen 0.3-1.0 cm long, cuneate to obtuse at the base, the lateral veins 6-12, widely arcuate, thin coriaceous, concolorous, glabrous, callose marginate; petioles to 1 cm long; stipules hemispherical, 3-9 mm long, the terminal awn longer than the body. Inflorescences to 5 cm long, to 4 cm wide, few flowered, the pedicels umbelliform from the apex of a shorter peduncle. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 1 cm long; calycine cup undulate; corolla purplish or white, tinted pink, the tube ca. 12 mm long, the lobes 4-6 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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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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The small, often oval leaves are unique among the Faramea of Central America. Only one other species of Far- amea in Panama has strongly marginate leaf blades, F. luteovirens Standley. The notes on the type collection indicate "trunk straight, ca. 6 m, the crown pyram- idal." Davidson 530, unlike the type, has lanceolate leaves. In addition the notes on the label indicate that it is 30-40 ft in height and has a corolla tube which is white and tinted pink. While these 3 differences from the type suggest that Da- vidson 530 is a second species, I prefer to regard it as F. ovalis.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUi: Chiquero, Boquete District, 5500 ft, Davidson 530 (MO). Cerro Horqueta, 1200-1700 m, Pittier 3159 (BM, C, US).
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