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(Last Modified On 7/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/16/2013)
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Species
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Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. P1. Carib. 19. 1760.
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Note
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TYPE: Jamaica
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Synonym
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Mellicocca bijuga L., Sp. P1., ed. 2. 495. 1762. TYPE: America meridional (not seen).
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Description
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Polygamous, deciduous, slow-growing trees, 6-20 m tall; trunk to 60 cm d.b.h., slightly angled and fluted, the bark gray, smooth, the inner bark orange brown, granular; stems grayish, glabrous. Leaves paripinnate, to 26 cm long; petioles 1.5-7 cm long, sometimes winged near the apex; rachis winged or not; leaflets 2-4, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, acute and inequilateral at the base, nearly sessile, 7-14 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide. Inflorescences terminal, the branches slender; racemes many flowered, simple or paniculate; pedicels slender, to ca. 3.5 mm long. Flowers white, 6-8 mm diam.; calyx deeply 4- or 5-lobed; petals obovate, to 3 mm long, ciliolate; disc broadly spreading, glabrous, weakly lobed; stamens 8-10; staminate flowers with the stamens to 3.5 mm long, the pistil lack- ing; bisexual flowers with the stamens to ca. 1.5 mm long, the ovary shorter than the petals, ovate, abruptly narrowed at the apex beneath the capitate, 2-lobed stigma. Drupes green to pale yellow, globose, 2-3 cm diam., the pericarp ca. 2 mm thick, smooth, the mesocarp yellowish, translucent, sweet and juicy; seeds globose, 1.5-2 cm diam.
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Habit
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trees
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Note
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Melicoccus bijugatus flowers in Panama in the dry season (January to April). Fruits mature in the rainy season.
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Distribution
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The species is native to northern South America (Colombia to the Guianas). It is introduced and widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
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genip ginep
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mamon de cartegena spanish lime
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chenet quenep
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guenette guenettier
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Common
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kenepier kenepa
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Common
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kinnup-tree knippen
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Summit Gardens, Mori & Kallunki 4539 (MO). PANAMA: Cerca de los silos del IFE, Almillategui 18 (DUKE, MO, PMA). Panama City, Lao 469 (MO).
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