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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 PTERICLADA Donn. Sm.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Gaz. 31:121. 1901.
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Description
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Usually a stout herb, somewhat suffrutescent below, erect, up to 30 cm. high, glabrous throughout or fuscous-pubescent on the petioles and leaf-nerves; stipules orbicular-ovate, persistent; leaves of a node similar and subequal, oblong-elliptic or somewhat oblanceolate, 5-20 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, acuminate, cuneate-attenuate at base and sometimes long-decurrent on the petiole, coarsely crenate-serrate above middle, triplinerved, the petioles up to 1 cm. long; cystoliths mostly punctiform; plants dioecious, the inflorescence cymose-paniculate, borne in the upper axils, shorter than the leaves; staminate flowers long-pediceled, whitish, the lobes short- mucronate; pistillate flowers sessile, the achenes ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, suboblique.
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Habit
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herb
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Fish Creek, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2203, 2237, 2318. DARIEN: Cana, alt. 750 m., R. S. Williams 8io. CANAL ZONE: between Peluca Hydrographic Station and Quebrada Peluca, along Rio Boqueron, Steyermark d Allen I7252 (plant smaller in every way).
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