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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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Pouteria chiricana (Standley) Baehni
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PlaceOfPublication
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Candollea 9: 421, 1942.
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Description
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Tree to 30 m. Leaves with petioles 6-17 mm long; blades elliptic or oblong- elliptic to somewhat obovate, acuminate, 8-16 cm long, 2.5-6.2 cm broad, glabrous or sparsely sericeous below along the midrib, usually conspicuously reticulate- veiny beneath, the secondary laterals irregularly anastomosing, often slightly raised below. Flowers subsessile in small axillary clusters; sepals 5, 2.2-2.6 mm long, closely pubescent, the outer ovate, the inner oblong-spatulate; corolla tubular or campanulate, 3-3.2 mm long, the lobes 5, ca 2 mm long, rounded; staminodes small and inconspicuous; ovary 4-locular. Fruit ca 3.5 cm long, broadly ellipsoid, smooth, 1-seeded, narrowed to a ? definite, short and broad, stipitate base; seed ellipsoid, ca 2.4 cm long and 1.8 cm broad, the seed-coat dull, with a fine raised honeycomb pattern on the external surface, 0.5-0.7 mm thick, the scar oblanceolate, ca 8 mm.broad, extending the length of the seed.
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Tree
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Distribution
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Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: region of Almirante, Cooper 457 (F). CHIRIQUi: Progreso, Cooper & Slater 230 (A, US), 254 (holotype F, isotype Y; not seen).
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