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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/13/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria fendleri Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 18: 129. 1916.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Fendler 59 (US, isotype).
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Description
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Subshrubs to 1 m tall, the ultimate branchlets angular, delicately rimose, gla- brous, the pith porate. Leaves widely oblong or obovate oblong, 3-9 cm long, 2.0-5.5 cm wide, rounded or obtuse or widely deltoid at the apex, only vaguely acuminate, cuneate, obtuse or truncate at the base and contracted abruptly to join the petiole, the costa grooved above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins ca. 9, prominulous and conspicuous below, forking almost 2/3 of the distance to the margin, the venules evanescent, occasionally with doughnut shaped or cra- teriform domatia in the axils, the pores to 0.2 mm in diam., the margin conspic- uously revolute, coriaceous, concolorous, ashen yellow when dry, glabrous; pet- ioles almost absent or to 0.6 cm long, thick, glabrous; stipules oblong, to 12 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous, red when dry. Inflorescences pseudoter- minal with a vegetative branch opposite the peduncle, glabrous, the peduncle to 6.5 cm long, terminated by 4-5 radiate branches, to 4 cm long. Flowers white, sessile, the hypanthium turbinate, ca. 1 mm long, the calycine tube subcampan- ulate, to 2 mm long, petaloid, glabrous inside and out, the teeth 5, triangular, to 0.35 mm long; corolla cylindrical, the tube to 2 mm long, petaloid, glabrous outside, villous at the filament attachment, the lobes 5, oblong, ca. 2 mm long, cucullate and galeate; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, 1.2 mm long, obtuse, fitting snugly under the hood of the petal lobe, the filaments ca. 1 mm long, attached near the middle of the tube; stigmas 2, 0.7 mm long, the style ca. 2 mm long, the ovarian disc compressed rotund, ca. 0.8 mm long, drying black. Fruits oblong rotund, ca. 5 mm in diam., the persistent calyx coroniform, ca. 1 mm long, the pyrenes 2, 5-costate, glabrous, somewhat glandular shiny, bright red at maturity.
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Habit
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Subshrubs
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Chagres, Fendler 59 (US). Pina to 3 mi NE of Pina, Fort Sherman Military Res- ervation, Liesner 1386 (MO). COL6N: Miquel de la Borda, Croat 10023 (MO). Isla Grande, D'Arcy 4020 (MO). Maria Chiquita, Dwyer 7783 (GH, MO). Roadside, pasture and scrubby growth along Caribbean at Quebrada Santa Marta, 41/2 km SW of Pina, Nee 11682, 11688 (both MO).
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