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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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Rudgea isthmensis Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 26: 313. 1929.
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Woodson et al. 1618 (MO, NY, isotypes).
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Description
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Trees to 4 m tall, the branchlets slender, the nodes well spaced. Leaves lance oblong, 5-13 cm long, 1.5-7.5 cm wide, deltoid at the apex, acuminate, the acu- men usually falcate, cuneate basally, the lateral veins 6-8, the submarginal vein ca. 1 cm from the margin, stiffly papyraceous, drying yellow, glabrous; petioles slender, to 1.3 cm long, glabrous; stipules ca. 1 cm long. Inflorescence cymose paniculate, glabrous, to 3.5 cm long, much shorter than the terminal leaves, pedunculate, the rachis with 2 sets of widely divergent opposite or whorled branches. Flowers not seen. Fruits subsessile, large, oblong, to 1 cm long, round- ed at the apex and base, sulcate, glabrous.
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Trees
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Salmanca Hydrographic Station, Rio Providencia and ridge S of river, Gentry & Nee 8699 (MO). Fort Sherman, Tyson & Dwyer 1191 (MO). Pequeni, Woodson et al. 1618 (F, MO, NY). SAN BLAS: Between Rio Diabolo and Rio Acuati near Nargana, Duke 14882 (MO).
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