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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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Species
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Manilkara chicle (Pittier) Gilly
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trop. Woods 73: 14, 1943.-Fig. 1.
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Synonym
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Achras calcicola Pittier, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 9: 438, 1919. Manilkara calcicola (Pittier) Gilly, Trop. Woods 73: 15, 1943.
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Description
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Tree to 40 m. Leaves with petioles 1-3.5 cm long; blades 8-24(-29) cm long, 3-7(-10) cm broad, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or rounded to acute or acuminate, paler and more yellowish beneath, ap- pressed-sericeous-strigulose below when young but eventually glabrate. Flowers yel- lowish- or grenish-white, 2-5 per fascicle; pedicels strigulose, 0.5-3 cm long; sepals 5-9 mm long, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, the inner and outer sericous- tomentulose; corolla 5.5-9 mm long, the tube I/4-1/2 the total length, the lobes ovate, often erose or erose-dentate at the apex, lacking dorsal appendages; sta- minodes 2.5-4.5 mm long, distally erose-laciniate, often shallowly bifid; stamens equalling the staminodes; ovary minutely sericeous on top, glabrous elsewhere, the style 6-9 mm long, glabrous except at the base. Fruit mealy-roughened, 2-4 cm in diam, subglobose or obovoid, several-seeded; seeds 14-19 mm long, flattened, the basilateral scar barely reaching the middle.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Oaxaca, Mexico through Central America to Colombia.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: area W of Limon Bay, Gatuin Locks & Gatuin Lake Johnston 1535 (A); Ancon Hill, Standley 26384 (US). DARIEN: ViC of Pifias, Duke 10653 (MO); Patiflo, Pittier 5698 (GH, US). ]LOS SANTOS: pastures ca 1/2 mi S of Pedasi, Stimson 5294 (MO). PANAMA: San Jose I, Johnston 336 (GH), 342 (MO, GH), 646 (GH), 753 (GH, MO, US); around Alhajuela, Chagres Valley, Pittier 3457 (holotype of Archras calcicola US).
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Note
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Although bearing the specific epithet chicle, this species is not the principal source of chicle gum. The latex is difficult to coagulate and inferior to that of M. zapota.
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