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(Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
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Species
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Randia armata124 (Swartz) DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Prodr. 4: 387. 1830.
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Synonym
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Gardenia armata Swartz Prodr. F1. Ind. Occ. 51. 1788. TYPE: not seen. Mussaenda spinosa Jacq., Sel. Stirp. Amer. 70. 1763. TYPE: Colombia, Jacquin, not seen. Randia spinosa (Jacq.) Karst. F1. Colomb. 2: 128. 1869. Randia panamensis Standley, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 288. 1929. TYPE: Cooper 213 (F, holotype; NY, isotype).
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Description
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Trees to 10 m tall, the branchlets terete or angular, usually opposite, stiff and spreading, subequal, armed terminally or subterminally, the spines 2-4, to 1.8 cm long, thin or relatively stout. Leaves oblong, obovate oblong or oblong rotund, 3-17(-30) cm long, 4.2-5.0(-13.0) cm wide, tapering obtusely at the apex, the acumen to 2 cm long, usually vaguely falcate, acute, obtuse and slightly inequi- lateral at base, the costa prominulous, plane or immersed above, prominent be- neath, the lateral veins (5-)6-8(-10), at first strict, then arcuate, the smaller veins perpendicular, irregularly spreading, chartaceous to papyraceous, concolorous, glabrous above, minutely puberulent on the costa and the veins beneath, occa- sionally barbate in axils or occasionally hairs restricted to the costa. Flowers terminal, solitary, 3.0-3.8 cm long, the hypanthium oblong, ca. 1.5 mm long, the calycine cup ca. 1.5 mm long, petaloid, glabrous and eglandular within, glabrate outside, the calycine teeth 5-6, oblong lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, 2.0-2.2 mm wide, subequal, acute, glabrous except minutely puberulent marginally; corolla white or yellowish, the tube narrow-cylindrical, ca. 25 mm long, ca. 3.5 mm wide in middle, glabrous inside and out, the lobes 5, imbricate, oblong, ca. 5 mm long, obtuse, glabrous; stamens 5, oblong, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1.8 mm wide, obtuse, versatile, the filaments short, attached near the mouth; stigmas 2, erect, ca. 3 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, the style linear, as long as the corolla tube, ca. 0.4 mm wide in the middle. Fruits rotund to compressed rotund, 2.3-5.0 cm long, smooth, usually delicately ribbed, glabrous, often minutely lenticellate, the persistent ca- lyx tubular, to 1 cm long.
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Trees
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Distribution
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ranges from Baja California through Mexico and Central America to South America. It also occurs in the Lesser Antilles.
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Common
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Jagua Macho Miel Quema
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Almirante, Cooper 213 (F); Cooper & Slater 66 (US). Duwebdulyp Peak, N of Rio Terebe across from Quebrada Huron, Kirkbride & Duke 561 (MO). Fish Creek Mts., Wedel 2342 (MO, US). CANAL ZONE: Madden Dam, Dwyer & Elias 7479 (GH, MO, US). Madden Forest, Gentry 1807 (MO). Hills SW of Gatun, Johnston 1583 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Bailey & Bailey 474 (F); Bangham 559 (F); Croat 4034, 4920, 7378, 9131, 10104, 15589 (all MO); Dwyer 1408 (MO); Ebinger 238, 566 (both MO); Hladik 360 (US); Kenoyer 558 (US); Knight 371 (MO); Oppen- heimer 66-8-29-1801 (MO); Zetek 3551 (MO). COCLE: El Valle, Allen 1789 (MO, US); Ebinger 1065 (MO). Rivera sawmill, Alto Calvario, 600-800 m, Folsom 3176 (MO). COLON: Santa Rita Ridge, ca. 5.5-6 mi E of Transisthmian Highway, Lewis et al. 5384 (MO, SCZ, UC). DARIEN: Rio Uruceca, Bristan 1436 (MO). Hills near Pidiaque, Duke 8045 (MO). Without other locality, Duke 8340 (MO). Cerro Campamento, S of Cerro Pirre, Duke 15702 (MO). Yaviza, Duke & Bristan 430 (MO). Rio Pirre, Duke & Bristan 8287 (MO). Cerro Pirre, 2500-4000 ft, Duke & Elias 13697 (COL, MO, UC, VEN); Gentry 4597 (MO). Between Tres Bocas and Cerro Campamiento, Cuasi-Cana Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 1354 (MO). N slope of Cerro Pirre, 300-700 m, Mori & Kallunki 5390 (MO). Camp Summit, Dari6n-San Blas Border, Sea Level Canal Route 17, 1000-1200 ft, Oliver et al. 3698 (MO). LOS SANTOS: 11 mi N of Tonosi, Tyson et al. 2974 (MO). PANAMA: Rio Pacora, E of Panama City, Bartlett & Lasser 16972 (MO). Confluence of Rio Pacora and Rio Corso, Duke 11979 (MO). Rio Sancanti, ca. 2 mi upstream from Piria, Duke 14361 (MO). Beyond Cerro Jefe, 2100-3000 ft, Duke & Dwyer 15068 (MO). Banks of Rio Ipeti, near Panamerican Highway, Folsom & Collins 1674 (MO). Stream flowing out of Serrania de Maj6, Folsom & Collins 1716 (MO). Cerro Trinidad, Saddle on SE slope, Kirkbride & Duke 1662 (MO). Taboga Island, McBryde 409 (US). Alhajuela, Pittier 3447 (US). Taboga Island, Pittier 3606 (US). Rio Tocumen, Standley 26740, 29332 (both US). Taboga Island, Standley 27048, 27903 (both US). Nuevo San Francisco, Standley 30709 (US). SAN BLAS: Perme, Cooper 251 (US). Headwaters of Rio Mulatupo, Elias 1765 (MO, UC). El Llano-Carti Road, 24.5-25.0 km from Inter- american Highway, Mori & Kallunki 5528 (MO).
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