(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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Markea neurantha Hemsl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Biol. Centr. Amer., Bot. 2: 429. 1882.
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Note
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TYPE: Costa Rica, Endres 534 (K).
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Synonym
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Merinthopodium neuranthum (Hemsl.) Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 23: 12, tab. 1. 1897.
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Description
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Shrub, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic, often high in the trees; twigs (dry) with longitudinally scaling bark and furrows. Leaves membranaceous, elliptic, the apex acuminate forming a "drip tip," the base obtuse, acute or acuminate, glabrous except for a few small simple hairs on the midvein beneath, mostly 8-12 cm long and 3-5 cm broad but occasionally much larger, ca. 5 major veins ascending at ca. 450 on each side of the midrib; petioles 1.5-4 cm long, slender, channelled above, ribbed beneath when dry. Inflorescence pendant, few- or many-flowered clusters at the end of a long, to 70 cm, slender peduncle which is rough textured with fine simple hairs and fine tuberculae, terminally thickened and stoutish; pedicels 3-10 cm long. Flowers with the calyx 2 cm long, lobed almost to the base at anthesis, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, campanulate, glabrous (Panama) or puberulent; corolla campanulate, 3-4 cm long and 2-3 cm across at the mouth, finely puberulent outside, glabrous within, strongly ribbed, the lobes ovate- orbicular; filaments filiform, inserted ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube, anthers
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Habit
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Shrub
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Description
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elongate, 10-13 mm long and 1-3 mm wide, apiculate, the connective dorsally marked when dry, thecae opening fully, exserted; ovary conical, ca. 5 mm tall, immersed in a ring of nectary(?) ca. 1.5 mm tall, stylar base slightly enlarged, style slender, stigma large, exserted. Berry ovoid-conical, about as long as the calyx with a conspicuous stylar scar.
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Distribution
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ranges from Chiriqui through Costa Rica.
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Note
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It is similar to M. dressleri, but the flowers are smaller. In Costa Rica there are plants of this or perhaps of a closely related species with tomentose calyces. Flowers are re- ported as green tinged with purple at the base. Flowers of M. dressleri are all green outside but purple inside. Fruiting pedicels of Kirkbride & Duke 887 are elongate, 4.5 and 7 cm long.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Without locality von Wedel 212 (GH, MO). Water Valley, von Wedel 802 (GGH, MO). CHIRIQUI: Rain forest, Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, 6,000 ft. Davidson 184 (A, F, MO). Between Pinola and Quebrada Hondo toward summit on Chiriqui Trail, premontane rain forest (oak), Kirkbride & Duke 887 (MO). Cerro Horqueta cloud forest, 6,500 ft, von Hagen & von Hagen 2075 (MO).
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