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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 PALLIDA Killip
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Washington Acad. Sci. 15:295. 1925.
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Description
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Plant erect, 30 cm. or more high, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 8-20 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate, acute at base, sometimes suboblique, serrate, densely covered with fusiform and punctiform cystoliths, slightly silvery-lustrous and punctate beneath, the petioles up to 7 cm. long; plants dioecious; staminate flowers densely congested in globose, sessile clusters, the perianth 1.5-2 mm. long including tips about half as long; pistillate flowers in much-branched cymes, shorter than the petioles, the achenes about 0.6 mm. long, black, minutely papillose.
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Distribution
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Panama and Costa Rica; in forests
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Elevation
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1000-1400 m.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Sibubi Falls, Sixaola Valley, Rowlee d Rowlee 376 (type). COCLEJ: El Valle de Anton, 1000 m. alt., Alston 8797.
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