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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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Species
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Palicourea grandibracteata Dwyer.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Mori & Kallunki 5262 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Shrubs to 3 m tall, the branchlets moderately slender, obtusely angular, pu- berulent, dark red when dry, the nodes well spaced. Leaves elliptic, sometimes obovate elliptic, 4-13 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, deltoid or rounded at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.5 cm long, ca. 0.2 mm wide in the middle, basally acute or cuneate, often inequilateral, the costa lightly prominulous or plane above, prominulous beneath, drying dull red, the lateral veins ca. 20, arcuate, rigidly papyraceous, discolorous, green or brown when dry, villosulose on the costa and the veins beneath; petioles 2-3 cm long, often curved near the lamina, rigid, ca. 0.15 cm wide, glabrous along most of their length; stipules persistent, strongly ascending, the sheath inflated, to 5 mm long, scarious, glabrous, each part with 2 triangular lobes, to 8 mm long, to 5 mm wide. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate, to 15 cm long, to 11 cm wide, the peduncle 5-6 cm long, often some- what reflexed, glabrous, the branches opposite, usually disposed as 4-6 pairs; bracts elongate, narrowly lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, the lowermost to 1.5 cm long, to 0.3 cm wide, acute, keeled, closely appressed to the stem, glabrous, venose. Flowers (only partially seen) pedicellate, the pedicels slender, to 1. 1(-1.4) cm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide; hypanthium to 1 mm long, glabrous, the calycine cup inflated, to 1 mm long, the lobes 5, ovate, to 5 mm long, unequal in width, to 3 mm wide basally, acute, glabrous, venose. Fruits subrotund or turbinate, to 1.6 cm long including the persistent calyx, truncate, 10-ribbed, glabrous, black when dry.
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Shrubs
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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 inflated stipules, each part of which has 2 triangular lobes, by its conspic- uous bracts and elongate calycine teeth.
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Specimen
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VERAGUAS: NW of Santa F6, 2 km from Escuela Agricola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 5262 (MO).
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