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(Last Modified On 5/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/10/2013)
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Species
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Lantana grosseserrata Moldenke,
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PlaceOfPublication
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Phytologia 1: 420. 1940.
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Description
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Straggling shrubs to 2.5 m high; branchlets slender, acutely tetragonal, sparsely or densely appressed-strigose with yellowish trichomes. Leaves decussate-op- posite, the blades chartaceous, slightly lighter green beneath, elliptic, 7-12.5 cm long and 2.8-4.8 cm wide, attenuate-acuminate basally and apically, coarsely and irregularly serrate-dentate from about the middle to the apex with mostly 7-10 sharply acute broadly triangular and divergent teeth on each side, sparsely and minutely pilosulous above, densely resinous-punctate beneath and sparsely short- pilosulous on the venation beneath; petioles 5-7 mm long, densely short-pubescent with substrigose trichomes. Inflorescences axillary, long-pedunculate, capitate; peduncles slender, 6.5-7.5 cm long, sparsely strigose; bractlets numerous, con- spicuous, narrowly elliptic, 6-20 mm long and 2-4 mm wide, densely resinous- punctate, venose, appressed-strigillose on the venation, acute. Flowers with the corolla white, the tube ca. 6 mm long, the limb ca. 2 mm wide. Drupes black, fleshy.
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Habit
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shrubs
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Distribution
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In bushy clearings, Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Bismarek, above Penonome, 2000-3000 ft, Williams 545 (NY, US).
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