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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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The specific name re- fers to the leaves being coriaceous and lance-shaped. These vegetative characters, coupled with several floral characters (cup-shaped calyx lacking teeth, the ovarian disc exceeding the calyx and capped by a measurable ring) serve to distinguish the species.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: El Llano-Carti Road, Gorgas Lab, Mosquito Project study area, 250 m, Croat 26028, 26048 (both MO). El Llano-Carti Road, Mori 7734 (MO, US).
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Species
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Psychotria durilancifolia Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Croat 26028 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Trees to 6 m tall, the branchlets terete or angular, the pith terete, the nodes well spaced, the petiole scars thin, ringlike. Leaves lanceolate, 8-13 cm long, 2-
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Habit
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Trees
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Description
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4 cm wide, acute toward the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.3 cm long, atten- uate acute at the base, the costa prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 6-7, arcuate, not forming an undulate submarginal vein, the inter- venal areas smooth, the smallest veins inconspicuous, prominulous, the margins lightly revolute, coriaceous, concolorous, drying reddish brown, glabrous above, puberulous on the costa and veins beneath; petioles to 1 cm long, stiff, abaxially concave and puberulent; stipules not seen. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, cy- mose paniculate, pyramidal, to 12 cm long, to 7 cm wide, the peduncle to 6 cm long, the branches opposite, well spaced, strongly angular ascending, to 6 cm long, with each branch terminated by 3 short branches, the flowers disposed in a few clusters. Flowers on short pedicels to 2 mm long, glabrate; hypanthium and calycine cup to 1 mm long, the cup saucer shaped, thickly petaloid, the teeth absent; corolla white, the tube shorter than the lobes, thickly petaloid, glabrous, densely tufted, villose between filament attachment areas, the lobes 5, oblong, 2-3 mm long, slightly cucullate, glabrous; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 1.0-1.2 mm long, obtuse, the filaments short or 2 times the length of the anthers, attached near the orifice, disc hemispherical, to 0.7 mm long with a conspicuous ring at the apex, to 1 mm long, the style ca. 1 mm long, much dilated above the middle, the stigmas 2, erect, fingerlike. Fruits not seen.
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