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(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 CHIRIQUINA Killip
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 15:291. 1925.
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Description
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Fleshy herb, up to 1 m. high, slightly suffrutescent toward base, glabrous throughout; leaves dark green above, paler, sparingly punctate beneath, crenate- serrate, triplinerved, those of a pair unequal and dissimilar, the larger oblanceolate, 3-9 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate, subauricular at base, suboblique, the petioles up to 5 mm. long, the smaller leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 0.7-3 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. wide, acute, obliquely subcordate, sessile or subsessile; cystoliths minute, linear; plants dioecious, the flowers in compact peduncled cymes, the staminate perianth segments with filiform tips, the pistillate cymes smaller, the achenes broadly ovate, about 1 mm. long.
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Habit
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herb
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Distribution
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Panama; in wet highland forests
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Elevation
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1400 and 2100 m.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Robalo Trail, northern slopes of Cerro Horqueta, Allen 49I4, 4915 (only d collection known). CHIRIQUi: upper Rio Calkera, Killip 3546 (type); Bajo Chorro, Woodson d Schery 668; slopes of Cerro Horqueta, Allen 4825.
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