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(Last Modified On 5/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/14/2013)
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Species
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Clerodendrum ligustrinum (Jacq.) R. Br.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hort. Kew., ed. 2. 4: 64. 1812.
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Synonym
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Volkameria inermis p Ait., Hort. Kew., ed. 1. 2: 364. 1789. Volkameria ligustrina Jacq., Coll. Bot. Suppl. 118, pl. 5, fig. 1. 1796. Clerodendron culinare Sesse & Moc., Fl. Mex., ed. 2. 151. 1894. Clerodendron fortunatum Sesse & Moc., Fl. Mex., ed. 2. 151. 1894, non Clerodendrum fortunatum L., Cent. Plant. 2: 23 [24], as "fortunata." 1756. Clerodendron mexicanum Brand., Univ. California Publ. Bot. 3. 391. 1909.
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Description
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Shrub or low tree to 3 m tall, sometimes clambering or vine-like; branches long, slender, obtusely tetragonal or subterete, the young ones brownish, the older ones light-gray, conspicuously lenticellate, the youngest minutely puberulent, later minutely strigillose or glabrous, chartaceous or membranous, elliptic to elliptic lanceolate, 1.5-10 cm long and 0.6-5.1 cm wide, acute or occasionally subacu- minate at both ends, entire, glabrous on both surfaces, densely punctate beneath; petioles slender, 5-9 mm long, minutely puberulent, often basally spinescent. Inflorescences mostly supra-axillary, rarely terminal, cymose, the cymes solitary, opposite, 3-7.5 cm long and 2-7 cm wide, laxly few-flowered, the terminal ones usually smaller; peduncles widely divaricate, slender, 1.5-4 cm long, minutely puberulent or subglabrate; foliaceous bracts few, caducous, 1-1.5 cm long and 3-7 mm wide, stipitate, minutely puberulent or glabrate, punctate beneath; bract- lets. and prophylls linear, 1-6 mm long, puberulent; pedicels slender, 3-6 mm long, puberulent, 13 mm long in fruit. Flowers with the calyx campanulate, 6-8 mm long, deeply 5-fid, the lobes lanceolate or deltQid, apically acuminate; corolla white, the tube straight, 1-1.2 cm long, the limb spreading, the lobes subequal, shorter than the tube. Fruit dry, 1-1.2 cm long and wide when mature, smooth, splitting into 2-seeded halves at maturity.
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Habit
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Shrub or low tree
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Distribution
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In marginal forests, thickets, swamps, and the banks of streams and lakes, from northern Mexico to Panama.
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Note
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In Mexico the leaves are used for flavoring.
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Common
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Itzimte muste
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Specimen
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COLON: Fendler 300 (K). PANAMA': Herb. Miller s.n. (BM).
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