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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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Species
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Palicourea carpirostrata Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Mori 5262 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Shrubs to 3 m, the twiglets stiff, drying deep red, glabrous, glandular shiny. Leaves lanceolate, 7.0-14.5 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, acute, acuminate, the acumen 1.0-1.5 cm long, usually falcate, ultimately obtuse, acute and scarcely inequilat- eral at the base, the costa plane or immersed above, prominulous distally, prom- inent proximally beneath, to 1.3 mm wide proximally, rubescent, the lateral veins strongly arcuate, ca. 16, rubescent, with 1-2 smaller veins between 2 lateral
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Description
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veins, the larger one subparalleling the laterals and zigzagging toward the margin, the other veinlets pinnatiform, the margin delicately revolute, coriaceous, dis- colorous, drying dark brown, hirtellous on the costa and the veins beneath, the intervenal areas puberulent; petioles stiff, divergent or ascending, to 3 cm long, drying red; stipules not seen. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, pyramidal panic- ulate, to 15 cm long, to 11 cm wide, the peduncle to 6 cm long, to 0.2 cm wide, glabrous, the rachis with 3 pairs of opposite branches, arcuate or angular as- cending, well separated, the lowermost to 6 cm long, the secondary branches usually with 3 branches above the middle, these alternate and umbelloid; bracts persistent, conspicuous, elongate, narrowly oblong, those at the base of the low- ermost branches to 1.5 cm long, acute, concave, somewhat auriculate at the base, the margin with 2-3 minute processes, 0.1-0.2 mm long, the bracts of the upper primary and secondary branches about as long but subplane, to 3 mm long. Flowers not seen, but judging from the fruits in 2 unilaterally disposed cymes of 2-3 flowers. Fruits oblong or rotund, 1.0-1.3 cm long, black, glabrous, delicately ribbed, the calycine cup and teeth rostrate, to 5 mm long, the cup scarious, glabrous, venose, the 5 teeth slightly longer than the cup, triangular, to 3 mm long, to 0.4 mm wide, glabrous; pedicels slender, glabrous.
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Note
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Its specific name is based on the elongate persistent calyx of the fruit.
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Specimen
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VERAGUAS: Cerro Tute, ridge top, cloud forest, Mori 5262 (MO).
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