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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 indigotica Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Hladik 511 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Trees to 7 m tall, the branchlets terete, smooth, glabrous, dull yellow when dry, the nodes well spaced. Leaves ovate oblong, 8.5-15.0 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, deltoid toward the apex, often acuminate, the acumen to 0.5 cm long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, the costa slender above, prominulous beneath, yellowish white when dry, the lateral veins 5-7, arcuate, prominent beneath, yellowish white, with 1-2 veins between a pair of lateral veins, these soon disappearing, the smaller veins pinnatiform, conspicuous and yellowish white, the undulate submarginal vein only ca. 3 mm from the margin, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, greenish yellow when dry; petioles rigid, to 3.5 cm long; stipules connate, crater shaped, to 0.2 cm long, coriaceous, glabrous, puberulent on both sides, without teeth or lobes. Inflorescences terminal, cymose paniculate, to 7 cm long, the peduncle 1.0-2.4 cm long, rigid, glabrous, the branches for the most part disposed as 2 pairs, the lowermost to 2.5 cm long, arcuate or angular ascending, the cymes few flowered, the branches often abnormal and swollen, to 0.4 cm wide. Flowers not seen. Fruits rotund, to 1.5 cm wide, blue, glabrous, the pyrenes oblong, to 1 cm long, truncate, conspicuously costate, often yellow green when dry, the calyx conspicuous; seeds blue black, with a T-shaped indentation as seen in cross section, often but one seed developing.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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It is so named because of its blue-black seeds.
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