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(Last Modified On 1/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/30/2013)
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Species
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HELIOCARPUS POPAYANENSis H. B. K.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 5: 341. 1823
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Reference
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Lay, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 36: 532, fig. 10. 1949.-Fig. 7.
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Synonym
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Heliocarpus trichopodus Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 31(1): 226. 1858. Heliocarpus americanus L. var. a popayanensis (H. B. K.) K. Schum. in Mart., Fl. Bras. 12(3):142. 1886. Heliocarpus polyandrus S. Wats. var. nodiflorus J. D. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 23: 240. 1897. Heliocarpus nodiflorus (J. D. Sm.) J. D. Sm. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5: 126. 1897. Heliocarpus americanus var. Schumanni E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. 36: 131. 1898. Heliocarpus popayanensis var. Purdiei E. G. Baker, loc. cit. 132. 1898. Heliocarpus popayanensis var. trichopoda (Turcz.) E. G. Baker, loc. cit. 132. 1898. Heliocarpus popayanensis var. grandifolius Hochr., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve 18: 116. 1914. Heliocarpus diclinus Hochr., loc. cit. 117. 1914. Helio-carpus boliviensis Hochr., loc. cit. 118. 1914. Heliocarpus Rosei IHochr., loc. cit. 119. 1914. Heliocarpus stipulaotus Hochr., loc. cit. 121. 1914. Heliocarpus australis E. E. Wats., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 50: 124. 1923. Heliocarpus rudis E. E. Wats., loc. cit. 126. 1923. Heliocarpus subtrilobus Sprague, Bot. Mag. 61: 257. 1923. Heliocarpus excelsior Merton, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 27: 307. 1937. Heliocarpus Gentlei Lundell, Phytologia 2: 3. 1941.
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Description
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Tree 6-30 m. tall, the young branches ferruginous-tomentellous to puberulous, the older ones glabrate. Leaves with a petiole 6-8 cm. long, ferruginous-puberulous, the blade broadly ovate to ovate-cordate, rounded to deeply cordate at the base, usually with 3 acuminate lobes, sometimes obscurely 3-lobed or only acuminate at the apex, 16-20 cm. long and 14-18 cm. wide, discolored, the margins irregularly serrulate, the upper surface dark green, sparsely and shortly ferruginous-puberulous, the lower surface light green and ferruginous-puberulous, 5- to 7-palminerved, the nervation very slightly prominent beneath. Infiorescences gynodioecious, usually terminal, the cymes ca. 12- to 20-flowered, sometimes condensed in nodose clusters, the flowering peduncles 3-radiate. Hermaphrodite flower with a pedicel ca. 2-4 mm. long, tomentellous, the sepals 4, narrowly lanceolate, acute and somewhat cucullate, ca. 4-7 mm. long and 1-1.2 mm. wide, fleshy, tomentellous without, glabrous within; petals 4, narrowly spatulate, ca. 3-4.5 mm. long and 0.5-0.75 mm. wide, glabrous; stamens about 12-24, the filaments ca. 3-4 mm. long, the anthers ca. 0.75 mm. long; ovary borne on a very short gynophore ca. 0.5 mm. long, ovoid to suborbicular, ca. 0.6-0.8 mm. long and 0.5-0.7 mm. broad; style ca. 1-2 mm. long, bifid about one third of its length, the stigma-lobes usually obscurely 2- to 3-lobulate. Pistillate flowver with a pedicel ca. 2 mm. long, tomentellous, the sepals 4, narrowly lanceolate, acute and somewhat cucullate, ca. 4-5.5 mm. long and 1-1.5 mm. wide, fleshy, tomentellous without, glabrous within; petals re- duced or absent; staminodes numerous; ovary borne on a very short gynophore ca. 0.5 mm. long, more or less suborbicular, ca. 1-1.2 mm. in diam.; style ca. 1.3-1.8 mm. long, slightly bifid to bifid about one third of its length, the stigma lobes obscurely lobulate. Fruit ellipsoid to slightly obovoid, the acerescent gynophore ca. 5-10 mm. long, shortly stellate-hirsute and provided with some plumose bristles, the body ca. 3-4 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, the plumose bristles ca. 4-7 mm. long, the faces covered either with stellate hairs or with shorter plumose bristles and stellate hairs; seeds ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm. long, with a depression in the middle.
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Tree
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Distribution
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A species which extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina and grows usually at altitudes from 500-2,500i m., in secondary forested valleys or on slopes
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Common
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majagiiillo
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Gatun, Ostenfeld 50; Barro Colorado Island, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey 380, Frost 218, Shattuck 662, 754, Wetmore, Abbe & Aviles 108, Woodworth & Vestal 730, 748; Darien Station, Standley 31552; Empire Station, Hayes 437; Empire to Mandinga, Piper 5532; Cerro Gordo, near Culebra, alt. 50-290 in., Pittier 2305; C 16, back of Curundu, Harvey 5288; along an old trail above the Reservoir, 1 to 3 miles from Gorgona, alt. 40- 150 m., Maxon 4751; locality unknown, Christopherson 117. CHIRIQUi: valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, P. White 29; vicinity of "New Switzerland," central valley of Rio Chiriqui Viejo, Allen 1398; vicinity of Cerro Punta, alt. 2,000 m., Allen 1519; slopes of VolcAn Baru, near town of Cerro Punta, alt. 6,000 ft., Stern & Chambers 77; between Cerro Vaca and Hato del Loro, alt. 850-1,100 m., Pittier 5392; around Camp Aguacatal, eastern slope of Chiriqui Volcano, alt. 2,100-2,200 m., Pittier 3082. COCLL: hills south of El Valle de Ant6n, alt. 600-800 m., Allen 2849; south rim of El Valle de Ant6n, alt. 650( m., Allen 2912; El Valle de Ant6n, along Rio Indio trail, 500-700 m., Hunter & Allen 304. COLON: vicinity of Gatuncillo, Piper 5612. DARIEN: CanA and vicinity, R. S. Williams 827; locality unknown, Macbride 2713. PROVINCE UNKNOWN: Cowell 270, 271, Hayes 947, 1015.
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