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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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Lycianthes porteriana D'Arcy
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TYPE: Panama, von Wedel 732 (US).
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Description
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Shrub or vine, twigs arachnoid-puberulent with brownish stellate hairs, fistu- lose. Leaves ovate, ca. 15 cm long, basally rounded or obtuse, apically acute or acuminate, membranaceous, veins 3-4 on each side of the midvein, glabrescent and drying slightly darker above, tomentose beneath with stalked, slender-armed stelfae; petioles to 10 mm long. Inflorescence a several-flowered fascicle, the pedicels slender, ca. 14 mm long, conspicuously pubescent with stalked stellae, the peduncle obsolete but marked by a cicatrix from fallen pedicels. Flowers with the calyx tomentose but the tissue clearly visible beneath the pubescence, the cup ca. 5 mm across, shallow, the teeth 10 in 2 similar series, slender, elongate, 4-5 mm long; corolla white (von Wedel), 6-7 mm across in bud, finely tomentose, ca. 14 mm long in flower. Fruit not seen.
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Shrub or vine
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This species is distinctive in its pubescent, slender, and elongate calyx teeth. It differs from L. howardiana in its slender calyx teeth and longer, slender pedicels, and from L. luteynii which has short, stouter calyx teeth and stout pedicels which, however, have been seen only in fruit.
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