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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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Subspecific
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Chrysophyllum. panamense var. macrophyllum Standley
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PlaceOfPublication
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Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 22: 366, 1940.
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Description
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Tree to 15 m. Leaves with petioles 0.8-2.5 cm long; blades elliptic or broadly oblong to elliptic-obovate, acuminate, to 25(-33) cm long and 11(-14) cm broad, glabrous above, glabrate below or sparsely and finely white-strigulose. Flowers several-numerous in each axillary cluster, the pedicels 3-7 mm long, appressed- gray-pubescent; sepals to 2 mm long, ovate or suborbicular, strigulose externally (occasionally losing some of the pubescence); corolla subcylindric, pale green to yellow or white, 3.5-5.5 mm long, externally often appressed-rufous-sericeous on the lobes and adjacent portions of the tube, the lobes deltoid-ovate, more or less erect, ess than l/2 the length of the tube; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, the filaments attached at the juncture of the corolla-tube and lobes; style 1-1.5 mm long, the stigma with 5 small marginal lobes. Fruit several-seeded, to 2 cm broad, oblate-spheroid to ovoid, often lightly ribbed; seeds pale brown, ca 1 cm long, with the basilateral scar extending to the middle or beyond.
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Tree
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Distribution
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Panama and Costa Rica, chiefly on the Atlantic slope.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: region of Almirante, Cooper 353 (F); s. loc., von Wedel 230 (F, MO). CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado I, Aviles 969 (F), Bailey & Bailey 397 (F), Bangham 591 (F), Ebinger 210 (MO), Shattuck 778 (F), 969 (MO), 1024 (F, MO), Starry 82 (F), 118 (F). Wetmore & Abbe 169 (F), Zetek 3810 (holotype of var. macrophyllum F, iso- type MO), Z-4327 (F). Z-4330 (F); s. loc., Hayes s.n. (F, MO); along the Trinidad River, Pittier 4005 (holotype US).
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