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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Species
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Dressleriopsis panamensis Dwyer
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Dressler 3560 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Subshrubs to 1 m tall, often with a pair of slender, rigid, opposite branches. Leaves oblong, to 19 cm long, to 9 cm wide, deltoid to subobtuse, short acuminate, basally cordate, truncate, or auriculate, the lateral veins ca. 15, arcuate, forming a conspicuous submarginal vein, the intervenal areas, spreading reticulate, rigidly chartaceous, discolorous, pilose petioles to 6 cm long; stipules triangular, free, ca. 7 mm long, ca. 6 mm wide, carnose, glabrous inside, diffusely hirsute out- side. Inflorescences axillary, the flowers congested into sessile globose heads 2 cm in diam.; bracteoles subulate, to 2 mm long. Flowers subsessile; hypanthium subrotund, to 2 mm long hirsute, the hairs septate, lobes 4, to 4 mm long, ca. 1.6 mm wide, basally attenuate glandular inside at the base; corolla white, cylindrical, ca. 3.5 mm long, glabrous within, the lobes 5, often horizontally expanded, oblong, ca. 4 mm long, villose, attenuate; upwards anthers 5, slightly exserted, subsessile, oblong, ca. 1 mm long, glabrous; disc cushion shaped, ca. 0.5 mm wide, the locules 8, a single linear oblong axile ovule filling each locule, the style narrowly, to 5 mm long, the stigmas 8, oblong, radiate. Fruits (?immature) berrylike, globose, to 1.1 cm in diam., not ribbed, compressed at the apex, the internal pulp with abundant raphides, the pyrenes pyrenes 8, pear shaped or somewhat hemispherical, ca. 3 mm long, hard, orange, with an oblong scar on the concave side.
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Habit
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Subshrubs
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Distribution
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known only from Panama.
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Specimen
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COL6N: Between Cerro Jefe and La Eneida, 900 m, Correa & Dressler 1121 (MO). Santa Rita Ridge, ca. 800 ft, Dwyer et al. 9035 (MO). PANAMA: Llano-Carti Road, 7-12 km from Panamerican Highway, Croat 25164 (MO). La Eneida, Dressler 3560 (MO). 16 km above Panamerican Highway, road from El Llano to Carti-Tupile, Kennedy et al. 2433 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 10 km from Panamerican Highway, Mori & Kallunki 2340 (MO). El Llano-Carti Road, Mori & Kallunki 2852, 2856 (both MO). El Llano-Carti Road, 8 km N of Panamerican Highway at El Llano, Nee & Warm- brodt 10343 (MO).
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