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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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Hortia colombiana Gleason
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 1: 25. 1933
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Note
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TYPE: Colombia, Lawrance 392 (NY).
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Description
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Trees 8-30 m high, the trunk 6-20 cm in diam.; young branchlets terete, thick, stout, brown to reddish brown, marked with conspicuous leaf scars, glabrous. Leaves clustered toward the apex of the branchlets, obovate to oblong obovate, 16-28 cm long, 4.0-6.8 cm broad, subacute to rounded at the apex, long cuneate at the base, covered with numerous but inconspicuous glandular punctations on the lower surface, narrowly revolute, chartaceous to almost coriaceous, glabrous, pinnately veined with 20-28 primary pairs, moderately ascending, anastomosing and conspicuous beneath; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, semi-terete, canaliculate adaxially, narrowly winged, stout, usually swollen at the base. Inflorescences terminal?, broadly corymbiform, many branched and many flowered, the pe- duncles short, stout, erect, glabrous, 2-3 cm long, sulcate, reddish brown when dry, the epidermis conspicuously reticulate. Flowers rose to rose red, the pedicels stout, rugose, 1.5-2.0 mm long; calyx shallowly campanulate, coriaceous to fleshy, faintly pellucid punctate, the lobes broadly rounded and with a slight irregular margin; corolla of 5 free lobes, rose pink to rose red, thick, ovate oblong, 5-6 mm long, 2.2-2.6 mm wide, with a terminal 1 mm linear inflexed apicule, each lobe with a densely bearded pulvinus below the middle; -stamens 5, inserted in the lobes of the nectary, the filaments stout, 2.5-3.0 mm long, -the anthers oblong, 1.8-2.2 mm long; ovary ovoid, 5-locular, the style short, the stigma simple, the ovary surrounded at the base by a 5-lobed nectary. Fruits not seen.
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Trees
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Specimen
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COLON: Santa Rita Ridge road 4 mi from Transisthmian Highway to Agua Clara weather station, Gentry et al. 8848 (MO).
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