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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
Species Rudgea amplexicaulis Dwyer
Note TYPE: Panama, Croat 33133 (MO, holotype).
Description Scandent shrubs to 1.5 m tall, the branches terete, moderately slender, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced, scarcely turgid. Leaves sessile, nar- rowly obovate oblong, 5-15 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, acute to deltoid at the apex, truncate at the base, at times vaguely auriculate and amplexicaul, the costa prom- inulous on both sides, the lateral veins arcuate, the undulate submarginal vein only to 3 mm from the margin, about 2 smaller veins between 2 lateral veins, arising at right angles from the costa and soon branching, the intervenal areas patulous reticulate, chartaceous, scarcely discolorous, glabrous; stipules decid- uous, connate, cup shaped, to 1.5 mm long, scarious, scarcely swollen, glabrous with a few oblong glands, ca. 0.5 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, few flowered, glabrous, cymose paniculate, to 4 cm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide, the branches dis- posed as 2 well spaced, opposite pairs, each bearing one 3-flowered cymule; bracts patulous, ovate subulate, to 1.3 mm long. Flowers with the pedicels to 3 mm long; hypanthium oblong, ca. 2 mm long, glabrous, black when dry, the calycine cup ca. 1 mm long, the lobes triangular, to 0.35 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla white, the tube narrowly cylindrical, scarcely attenuate basally, glabrous outside, the lobes 5, oblong, 5-6 mm long, minutely apiculate and vaguely cu- cullate. Fruits not seen.
Habit shrubs
Distribution known only from Panama.
Note It is immediately distin- guished by its narrow leaves, some of which are amplexicaul at the base. The sprawling habit of the shrub is unique at least for the Central American species of Rudgea.
Specimen CHIRIQUf: Above San Felix along mining road 18-27 mi off Panamerican Highway above Chame or turnoff to Escopeta, 1200-1500 m, Croat 33133 (MO).
 
 
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