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(Last Modified On 9/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/19/2013)
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Species
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Meliosma frondosa Cuatr. & Idrobo
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PlaceOfPublication
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Caldasia 7: 193. 1955.
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Note
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TYPE: Colombia, Cundinamarca, 1,900-2,100 m, Idrobo & Hernandez 1532 (COL, holotype; F, US, isotypes).
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Description
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Tree 8-10 m tall; branchlets longitudinally finely striate, glabrous or incon- spicuously minutely appressed-puberulous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 4-16(-42) cm long, 2.3-6(-15) cm wide, rounded at base and apex, thick-coriaceous, the margin entire, somewhat involute, drying gray above, brown below, the midvein and secondary veins impressed above and raised below (the Panamanian collection strikingly bullate), secondary veins 8-11 on a side, tertiary venation plane above and slightly prominulous below, glabrous (a few tiny adpressed, essentially in- visible hairs along midvein of type); petiole 1-2 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescences paniculate from axils of the upper leaves, puberulous, the individual flowers ses- sile, densely congested on the ultimate branches, subtended by sepal-like brac- teoles. Flowers white, drying black; sepals, orbicular, long-ciliate, 1-2 mm long (-2.6 mm fide Cuatrecases & Idrobo), outer petals suborbicular, ca. 1 mm long (in bud); stamens 2, the anther thecae short and thick; ovary not seen. Fruit asymmetrically pryiform, 1.6-2 cm long, 1.4-1.6 cm wide.
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Habit
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Tree
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Note
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This description of M. frondosa is taken from the Colombian type and two other collections, one from Ecuador ,(Bolivar Province, 2,800 m, Acosta Solis 6851, F) and one from Panama, which seem to match it. The Panamanian collec- tion, from cloud forest (lower montane rain forest) above 1,000 m altitude, has more strikingly bullate leaves than the two South American collections, but is otherwise a reasonable match with this species.
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Distribution
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Colombia Ecuador ,
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Distribution
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Panama
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Specimen
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VERAGUAS: Cerro Tute, ridgetop in cloud forest, 10 km NW of Santa F6, Mori 6753 (MO).
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