(Last Modified On 5/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/17/2013)
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Species
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Witheringia cuneata (Standl.) Hunz.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Kurtziana 5: 118-122. 1969.
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Synonym
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Lycianthes cuneata Standl., Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. ser. 4: 260. 1929. TYPE: Panama, Cooper 405 (F, NY, US). Lycianthes austin-smithii Mort. & Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 1057. 1938. TYPE: Costa Rica, Austin-Smith 4117 (F). Lycianthes inaequalis Mort. & Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 1059-460. 1938. TYPE: Panama, Dunlap 396 (F, US). Lycianthes chiriquensis Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 22: 100-101. 1940. TYPE: Panama, Davidson 623 (A, F). Lycianthes laxissima Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 22: 169,70. 1940. TYPE: Panama, Davidson 67 (F, holotype; MO, isotype).
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Description
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Herb or shrub to 3 m tall, glabrate; twigs slender, some with minute, ascending hairs (visible with a lens). Leaves irregular in shape, mostly strongly oblique, oblong, elliptical, ovoid or obovoid, to 25 cm long, membranaceous, glabrous; the petioles slender, short, to 1.5 cm long; minor leaves rotund. Inflorescences fascicles or subumbellate on branched peduncles to 3 cm long, the ultimate branches of the peduncle slender; the pedicels slender, 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx small, campanulate, glabrous, the apex truncate, sometimes with 4-5 angles at the apex; the corolla obconical, the tube 2-3 mm long, glabrous outside, pubescent at the top within, lobed a little more than halfway down, the lobes lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous; filaments fine puberulent, inserted at the top of the corolla tube, the anthers 2.2-3.6 mm long, not apiculate; the style slender, broadening slightly upwards, ultimately 8 mm long. Fruit large, globose, ca. 10-12 mm across.
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Habit
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Herb or shrub
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Note
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Witheringia cuneata is almost glabrous, but with the aid of a good lens minute ascending hairs may be seen on the twigs. The slender peduncles and small flowers are also distinctive. Most collections seen have very strongly oblique leaves, but the overall shape is very variable.
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Distribution
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Known in Panama only from the Chiriqui Mountains and their Caribbean drainage, the species is reported from Nicaragua to Venezuela.
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Note
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It is apparently a plant of middle and upper elevations.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Lincoln Creek, Carleton 85 (US). Research Lagoon, Region of Almirante, Cooper 405 (F). Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 85A (F). Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 396 (F, US). Changuinola River, near Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2601 (MO). CHIRIQUI: Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6,000 ft, Davidson 66 (A). Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6,000 ft, Davidson 67 (F, MO). Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, 6,000 ft, Davidson 414 (A, MO). Forest, Boquete, 3,800 ft, Davidson 623 (F). Cerro Horqueta rain forest, 6,500 ft, von Hagen & von Hagen 2081, 2082 (both MO). Near Bajo Chorro, 1,900 m, Woodson & Schery 671 (MO).
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