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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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Species
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Jaltomata procumbens (Cav.) J. L. Gentry
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 26: 123. 1973.
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Synonym
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Atropa procumbens Cav., Ic. Descr. P1. 53, tab. 72. 1791. TYPE: (not seen). Saracha procumbens (Cav.) R. & P., Fl. Peru. Prodr. 2: 43, tab. 180b. 1794. Bellinia procumbens (Cav.) R. & S. in L. Syst. Veg. 4: 56, Introd.; 687. 1819. Saracha nitida Bitt., Fedde Repert. 19: 265. 1924. TYPE: Venezuela, Fendler 1007 (MO, NY).
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Description
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Herb to 2 m tall; stems fistulose, green, glabrate to viscid pubescent with straight hairs which dry white. Leaves ovate, entire or sparingly sinuate-dentate, apically acuminate, basally obtuse or narrowed, above glabrate, beneath sparingly pubescent along the veins, the petioles to ca. 5 cm long, often winged by the narrowed leaf base; minor leaves often present and as large as the majors. In- florescence an umbel on a slender, puberulent, unbranched peduncle, to 4 cm long, pedicels filiform, 1 cm long, to 3 cm long in fruit. Flowers mostly de- fleeted, calyx 2-3 mm long, lobed about halfway down, accrescent and becoming 1 cm long in fruit, with a conspicuous midvein, spreading and not enveloping the fruit; corolla yellow to greenish white, often with some greenish dots, 10-15 mm across, lobed about halfway, the lobes deltoid or obtuse; anthers ellipsoid, ca. 2 mm long; style expanded-capitate. Fruit a black mucilagineous berry, 8-10 mm across. Seeds many, compressed lenticular, ca. 1 mm long. Chromosomes n = 12.
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Habit
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Herb
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Distribution
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This species is found from Mexico to the Andes,
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Note
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In Panama it is common in the Chiriqui mountains in cafetales and at the edges of fields.
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Common
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Uchuba negra yerba-mora
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Robalo Trail, N slope of Cerro Horqueta, 6-7,000 ft, Allen 4916 (MO). CHIRIQUI: In cafetal, Los Naranjos, D'Arcy 4270 (MO). Stream bank, Nueva Suisa, Volcan District, 5,700 ft, D'Arcy 5309 (ADW, MPU). On dead log above Nueva Suisa, Volcan Dis- trict, 6,000 ft, D'Arcy 5317 (MO). In cafetal just above Boquete, D'Arcy & D'Arcy 6472 (MO). Clearing in rain forest, Bajo Corro, Boquete District, 6,000 ft, Davidson 415 (MO, US). Cerro Horqueta, Dwyer 6961A (MO). COCLE]: Disturbed forest edges, hills NE of El Valle de Anton, 2,000 ft, Lewis et al. 1702 (MO). Between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson et al. 1287 (MO).
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