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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
Species Pentagonia macrophylla Benth.
PlaceOfPublication Bot. Voy. Sulph. 105. tab. 39. 1845.
Note TYPE: Panama, Bentham (K, holotype, not seen).
Synonym Watsonamra macrophylla (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 302. 1891. Watsonamra pubescens Standley, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 17: 441. 1914. TYPE: Panama, Pittier 3822 (US, holotype; NY, isotype).
Description Trees to 7 m ( or to 16 m?), the nodes crowded at the apex of the stem. Leaves ovate rotund, oblong, or rhombic rotund, to 45 cm long, to 24 cm wide, widely deltoid at the apex, basally cuneate, rounded or occasionally truncate, often inequilateral, the costa prominent above and beneath, the lateral veins 12-15, coriaceous, glabrous above, minutely sericeous on the veins beneath; petioles to 14 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm wide in the middle, not strongly dilated basally; stipules free, triangular, 3.5-4.0 cm long, ca. 1.5 cm wide at the base, coriaceous, glabrous or golden puberulent. Inflorescences axillary, sessile or pedunculate, the cymes with few to many flowers aggregated usually into a rotund mass shorter than the petiole; bracts red. Flowers yellow; hypanthium obovate rotund, 0.6-0.8 cm long, coriaceous, glabrous, the calycine lobes 5, erect, oblong, 0.6-0.9 cm long, obtuse, concave, coriaceous, moderately pubescent, with a cluster of minute, oblong glands within at the sinuses; corolla with the tube cylindrical, 3.5-4.0 cm long, to 1 cm wide, puberulent outside, densely golden villose within near filament attachment, the lobes 5, spreading or scarcely reflexed, ovate oblong, 5.5-7.0 mm long, acute, villose marginally, smooth; stamens 5, included in the tube, the anthers perhaps dimorphic, the smaller saucer shaped, ca. 3.5 mm long, the pollen aborted?, the larger to 8.5 mm long, polleniferous, the filaments linear subulate, 1.2-2.0 cm long, differing slightly in length, ca. 1.3 mm wide at the base, attached below the middle of the tube, densely villose basally on the adaxial side; style linear, 2.0-2.5 cm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide, the stigmas 2, spread at anthesis, oblong rotund, 3-4 mm long, obtuse. Fruits rotund, to 2.8 cm in diam., nutlike, villo- sulose, the calycine cup 1.5-2.0 cm long, the lobes lanceolate, narrow oblong or subrotund, to 1.3 cm long, equal to or exceeding the cup in length, the wall of the fruit ca. 0.35 cm in diam.
Habit Trees
Distribution known only from Panama, the Dept. Choco, Co- lombia, and Ecuador.
Common Hoja de Murcielago
Note Folsom & Robinson 2381 has ex- ceptionally small leaves measuring only 19-25 cm in length.
Specimen BOCAS DEL TORO: Quebrada Huron, Kirkbride & Duke 425 (MO). Isla Col6n, Lao 93 (MO); Wedel 481 (MO). Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1561 (F, MO). Old Bank Island, Wedel 1931 (F, MO). Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 2535, 2873 (both MO, US). CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Allen 926 (MO). Rio Chagres, Allen 874 (MO). Juan Mina, Bartlett & Lasser 16555 (MO). Without other locality, Blum & Tyson 2322 (MO). Pipeline Road, Croat 12364 (MO). Road between Gat6n and Pifia, 3 km S of Pifia, Croat 36931 (MO). Coco Solo, Duke 4270 (MO). Galena Point, Dwyer & Robyns 161 (MO). Gat6n Lake, NW shore, Dwyer 1816 (GH, MO, US). Summit and Gamboa, Greenman & Greenman 5217 (MO). Pipeline Road, Hayden 69 (MO). Rio Indio, Lao & Holdridge 54 (MO). Pipeline Road, Lewis et al. 5458 (MO, SCZ, UC). Fort Sherman, Maxon & Valentine 6987 (US). Railroad, 6 km W of Gamboa, Nee 7206 (MO). 2 km W of Gamboa, Nee 7531 (MO). Pipeline Road, 11/2 km NW of Gamboa, Nee 9584 (MO). Gatuncillo, Piper 5602 (US). Tabernilla, Pittier 3822 (F, US). Agua Clara, Pittier 3992 (NY, US). Frijoles, Standley 27421, 27497, 27565 (all US). Gamboa, Standley 28422 (US). Fort Randolph, Standley 28691 (MO, US). Fort Sherman, Standley 31034 (US). Obispo, Stan- dley 31696 (US). Fort Sherman, Tyson 3809 (MO); Tyson & Blum 1667 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Bailey & Bailey 135 (F); Bangham 440 (F); Brown 135 (F); Croat 4128, 4646, 4685, 5453, 5821, 6220, 6244, 8167, 10355, 14580, 16542 (all MO); Ebinger 58 (MO, US); Foster 1052 (F); Hayden 11, 32 (both MO); Kenoyer 545 (US); Knight 69-3 (MO); Luteyn 1350 (F); Maxon et al. 680 (MO); Oppenheimer 6609-14-1305 (MO); Robyns 65-15 (MO); Shattuck 1049 (MO); Standley 31328, 31455, 40789 (all US); Starry 21 (MO', 142 (F, MO); Woodson & Schery 963 (MO). COCLE: El Valle, Allen 2801 (F, MO), 3736 (F). Alto de Calvario, 7 km N of El Cope, 700 m, Folsom 4097 (MO); Folsom & Robinson 2381 (MO). Boca del Toabre, Lewis et al. 5542 (BM, MO). COL6N: Camp Pifia, Allen 3580 (F). Rio Indio, road from Portobelo to Nombre de Dios, Croat 33633 (MO). Icacal between Salud and Boca, Howell 234 (MO). Pifia, Kirkbride & Hayden 318 (MO). Fort San Lorenzo, Quist- gaard 26 (MO). Road to Rio Indios, 3 km S of Pifia, Sullivan 130 (MO). DARIEN: Cerro Pirre, Bristan 557 (MO); Duke 4842 (MO). PANAMA: Chagres, Fendler 208 (MO). Cerro Trinidad, Kirkbride & Duke 1678 (MO). 5-10 km NE of Altos de Pacora, ca. 750 m, Mori & Kallunki 4978 (MO). El Llano Carti Road, 5 km N of Panamerican Highway, Nee 7935 (MO). Arenoso, Seibert 599 (MO). SAN BLAS: Headwaters of Rio Cuadi, Camp Diablo, Duke 3649 (MO, UC).
 
 
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