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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria haematocarpa Standley
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J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 18: 274. 1928.
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TYPE: Costa Rica, Standley & Valerio 47194 (US, holotype).
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Description
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Shrubs to 2 m tall, branching freely, the branchlets terete, ultimately angular, glabrous. Leaves narrowly or widely lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, sometimes falcate, 5-15 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, acute at the apex or obtuse, often acuminate, the acumen to 2 cm long, basally acute or attenuate acute, the costa slender above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 10-13, prominulous beneath, white when dry, arcuate, with 1-3 veins intermediate between a pair of lateral veins, these soon branching, the submarginal vein undulate, 0.2-0.7 cm from the margin, stiffly chartaceous, concolorous, glabrous; petioles 0.3-1.6 cm long, rigid, 0.1 cm wide, glabrous; stipules free, widely compressed rotund, the body to 2.5 mm long, coriaceous when dry, glabrous, the awns 2, subulate, longer than the body. Inflorescences terminal, 1.5 cm long, the peduncle short, to 1 cm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, glabrous, the branches (0-)1-3, to 1.5 mm long, radially disposed, each branch (when fruits deciduous) terminated by a few scars; bracteoles deciduous from the base of the branches, few, subulate, ca. 1 mm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits sessile, orange when dry, rotund, 4-6(-8) mm in diam., each pyrene ul- timately 4-sulcate, smooth, glabrous, the calycine cup often persistent, 0.8-1.5 mm long, the teeth triangular, ca. 0.5 mm long.
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Distribution
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known from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.
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Note
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The type from Costa Rica was collected at 900 m. The species is recognized by a combination of characters: the leaf blades with the lateral veins usually white when dry; the submarginal vein well set in from the margin; the inflorescence much reduced, and fruit drying orange. Several collections from Nicaragua may be Psychotria haematocarpa. These collections are labeled P. pervilis Standley & Williams, an unpublished name: Shank & Molina 4675, 4780 (both US), 4887, 4960 (both F). The first two of these have inflorescences with elongate reflexed bracts to 1.2 cm long, suggestive of P. officinalis.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Cerro Pilon, ca. 2700 ft, Duke & Lallathin 15000 (MO); Divyer 8331 (MO); Gentry 3640 (MO). 3 mi NE of El Valle, Mori & Kallunki 2962 (MO). COL6N: Rio Guanche, D'Arcy 9687 (MO). Santa Rita Ridge trail, 17-35 km from Boyd-Roosevelt Highway, 400-800 m, Mori & Crosby 6319 (MO). Santa Rita Road, ca. 6 km from Boyd-Roosevelt Highway, Mori & Kallunki 2154 (MO). DARIEN: Loma Cuasi, behind Manene, Duke 13612 (MO). 1 mi SE of Rio Tuira, Duke 14575 (MO). Between Rio Diabolo and Rio Acuati, Duke 14882 (MO). Puerto St. Dorothea, Dwvyer 2267 (MO). VERAGUAS: Between Escuela Agricola Alto Piedra and Calovebora, 15.6 km NW of Santa Fe, 450- 550 m, Croat 27568 (MO). 8.8 km from Agricola Alto de Piedra, Mori & Kallunki 3212 (MO). co- LOMBIA: CHOCO: Municipio de Riosucio, Parque Natural Nal. Los Katyos, Subida al Alto Del Limon, 300-380 m, Leon 435 (MO).
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