(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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PILEA PUBESCENS Liebm.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift. V. 2:302. 1851.
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Description
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Stem repent, at length erect and usually with several erect or ascending branches, brownish-pubescent; leaves usually massed at the end of the stem or branches, wanting or much reduced below, broadly ovate, up to 7 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, petiolate, usually coarsely crenate-serrate, often ciliate, sparingly strigillose with hyaline hairs or rarely glabrous above, hirsutulous beneath on the nerves and veins, the cystoliths linear and fusiform above, obscure beneath; plants monoecious or occasionally dioecious, the flowers in dense globose clusters forming a panicle up to 7 cm. long, slender-peduncled, the panicles usually androgynous with relatively few staminate flowers, the achenes minute, scarcely 0.5 mm. long.
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Note
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Pilea pubescens evidently has a wide distribution in the lowland tropics although doubtless much material has been wrongly referred to it. Direct comparison has been made between the Panama specimens here cited and the type, collected in southeastern Brazil by Lund and generously lent the author by the Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, and there is perfect agreement.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, 1200 m. alt., Davidson 86o. COCLE: El Valle de Anton, Alston 878i. DARIEN: Cana, R. S. Williams 837.
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