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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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TRIUMFETTA BOGOTENSIS DC.
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Prodr. 1: 506. 1824;
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Reference
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Lay, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 366. 1950.
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Synonym
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Triumfetta pilosa H. B. K., Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 5: 343. 1823, non Roth, Nov. PI. Sp. 233. 1821. Triumfetta sepium St.-Hil., Juss. & Camb., Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 222. 1827. Triumfetta dumetorum Schlecht., Linnaea 11: 377. 1837. Triumfetta hispida A. Rich., Bot., PI. Vase. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Phys. Pol. Nat. Cuba 204. 1845. Triumfetta grossulariaefolia A. Rich., loc. cit. 205. 1845, t.22. 1850(?). Triumfetta Lindeniana Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 31(1): 229. 1858. Triumfetta Botteriana Turcz., loc. cit. 32: 260. 1859. Triumfetta orizaba Turcz., loc. cit. 32: 261. 1859. Triumfetta Josefina Polak., Linnaea 41: 552. 1877. Triumfetta vincentina Urb., Symb. Ant. 5: 414. 1908. Triumfetta valenciencis Kunth, Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 43: 464. 1927. Triumfetta panamensis Johnston, Sargentia 8: 194. 1949.
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Description
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Shrub 1-2 m. high, sometimes small tree up to 4 in. high, the branches covered with short stellate and long hirsute simple hairs especially when young. Leaves with a petiole 2-7 cm. long, covered with short stellate and long hirsute simple hairs, the blade broadly elliptic, usually 3-lobate, sometimes only obscurely so, rounded to subcordate at the base, the apex acuminate, 7-14 cm. long and 5-11 cm. wide, the margins irregularly and more or less bluntly serrate, the upper surface slightly hirsute and mostly with long simple hairs, the lower surface scatteringly puberulous with appressed stellate hairs and some spreading simple hairs, 5-palminerved, the nervation slightly prominent beneath. Inf lorescences axillary or oppositifolious, the cymes of 2-3 cymules, the bracts lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3-10 cm. long and 1-5 cm. wide, the bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm. long, long-hirsute, the peduncles 4-7 mm. long, the pedicels 3-4 mm. long, both long-hirsute. Flowers 8-13 mm. long, hermaphrodite, the sepals linear. acute, the apical appendage ca. 1.8-2.5 mm. long, 8-13 mm. long (the appendages included) and ca. 1.5 mm. wide, fleshy, leng-hirsute without, glabrous within; petals 5, narrowly obovate, ciliate at the base, more or less acute at the apex, 7-9 mm. long and ca. 2 mm. wide, yellow, sometimes orange; gono- phore ca. 0.75 mm. long, bearing 5 distinct suborbicular glands subequalling the gonophore, the urceolus undulate, ciliate and ca. 0.5 mm. long; stamens 25-30, the filaments ca. 4-7 mm. long, glabrous, the anthers ca. 1 mm. long; ovary sub- orbicular, ca. 1 mm. in diam., densely covered with uncinate spinules; style fili- form, 6-7 mm. long, glabrous; stigma obscurely 3-lobulate. Fruit spheroid on the slightly accrescent gonophore, the body ca. 4 mm. in diam., stellate-hirsute, the spines about 75, ca. 3-4 mm. long, retrorsely pilosulose, the spinules uncinate, 3- or 4-leculate, each cell 2-seeded; seeds lenticular, 2-3 mm. long and ca. 2 mm. wide.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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A weedy species widely distributed throughout tropical America, growing in open sunlight, on hill-slopes
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Elevation
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600-2,000 m.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: banks of the Chagres River, near sea level, Maxon 4799; Gamboa, Stand- ley 28500, 28511, Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 29603; Empire to Man- dinga, Piper 5452, 5453, 5462; Rio Grande, near Culebra, alt. 50-100 m., Pittier 2128; Cerro Gordo, near Culebra, Stai.dley 26024; vicinity of Miraflores, P. & G. White 52; along the old Las Cruces Trail, between Fort Clayton and Corozal, Standley 29204; Balboa, Standley 25613; along an old trail above the Reservoir, 1 to 3 miles from Gorgona, alt. 40-150 m., Maxon 4730; base of Contractors Hill, Dwyer 2871. CHIRIQUi: Bajo Mona, mouth of Que- brada Chiquero, along Rio Caldera, ca. 1,500-2,000 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1002; vicinity of Bajo Mona and Quebrada Chiquero, alt. 1,500 m., Woodson & Schery 592; Boquete, alt. 4,000 ft., Davidson 861; vicinity of El Boquete, Bro. Maurice 692. PANAMA: hills above Campana, alt. 600-800 m., Allen 1309; along the Corozal Road, near Panama, Standley 26789; Tumba Muerto Road, near Panama, Standley 29762; vicinity of Juan Franco Race Track, near Panama, Standley 27697; vicinity of Bella Vista, Piper 5355; Sa- banas, Bro. Paul 234; between Las Sabanas and Matias HernAndez, Standley 31838; Agri- cultural Experiment Station at Matias HernAndez, Pittier 6914, 6925; near Matias HernAn- dez, Standley 28964; San Jose Island, Johnston 1112. PROVINCE UNKNOWN: Hayes 325.
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