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(Last Modified On 8/12/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/12/2013)
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Species
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Zanthoxylum fagara (L.) Sarg.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gard. & Forest 3: 186. 1890.
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Synonym
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Schinus fagara L., Sp. PI. 389. 1753. TYPE: Figure in Sloane, Voyage 2: pl. 162, f. 1. 1725. Fagara pterota L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 897. 1759. TYPE: Same as for Schinus fagara L. Pterota fagara (L.) Crantz, Inst. Rei Herb. 2: 417. 1766. Fagara lentiscifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Enum. PI. 165. 1809. TYPE: B, not seen. Zanthoxylum pterota (L.) H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 6: 3. 1823. Zanthoxylum lentiscifolium (Willd.) Anderss., Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handi. 1853: 244. 1855. not Zanthoxylum lentiscifolium Champ. ex Benth., Hook. J. Bot. 3: 329. 1851. Fagaras fagara (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3(2): 34. 1898. Fagara fagara (L.) Small, Fl. SE. U.S. 675. 1903.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees to 10 m high; branchlets zigzagged, reddish brown, becoming light gray, minutely puberulent to glabrate, more or less angled, some- times ridged between the nodes, armed with paired, subulate, recurved, sharp, dark, minutely puberulent, deciduous, pseudostipular prickles 2-6 mm long. Leaves odd-pinnate, 4-9 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; petiole and rachis winged, cana- liculate above, more or less minutely appressed puberulent to glabrate, the petiole 11-24 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, the rachis 3-6 mm wide; leaflets 5-7, opposite to subopposite, obovate to broadly elliptic, acute to rounded and retuse apically, inequilateral and cuneate basally, the margins crenulate and revolute, the blade pellucid punctate marginally at the bases of the crenulations, membranaceous to subcoriaceous, sparingly minutely appressed puberulent to glabrate, 9-35 mm long, 6-21 mm wide, the lowest pair smallest, sessile to short petiolulate, the terminal leaflet decurrent to the rachis. Panicles axillary, spikelike, minutely puberulent, to 2 cm long. Staminate flowers subsessile; sepals 4, broadly obovate, ca. 1 mm long; petals 4, obovate; stamens 4, less than 1 mm long. Carpellate flowers with the pedicels to 1 mm long in fruit; sepals 4, broadly obovate, ca. 1 mm long; petals 4, obovate; carpels 2, sessile, connate basally, ca. 1 mm long. Follicles 1, obovoid, brownish, roughened, with brownish punctations, glabrous, ca. 5 mm in diameter, short stipitate, the stipe 2 mm long.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Note
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The single collection known from Panama is in fruit. Details of the flowers given above are from Wiggins and Porter (1971).
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Distribution
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a widespread species, occurring from Florida and Texas southward through Mexico and the Caribbean region to Peru and northern Argentina.
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Note
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In Panama, this species is known to fruit in December. Detailed study of the species throughout its range may support the recognition of several taxa.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: La Jagua, McDaniel 8211 (DUKE).
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