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(Last Modified On 3/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/15/2013)
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Species
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Gloeospermum portobelense A. Robyns
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 53: 111, 1966.
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Description
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Tree 4 m high, entirely glabrous. Leaves with petioles slightly canaliculate above, 3-6 mm long, the stipules narrowly ovate-triangular, 6 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; blade narrowly elliptic, rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex, entire- margined, up to 13.5 cm long and 4.7 cm wide, rigid-chartaceous, the venation prominent especially beneath. Inflorescences of few-flowered cincinni. Flowers with the pedicels up to 5 mm long, articulate 1 mm above the base; buds ovoid, ca 5 mm long; sepals broadly ovate to very broadly ovate, obtuse, inconspicuously ciliolate, unequal, the 2 outer ones ca 1.5 mm in diam, the 2 inner ones ca 1.8 mm in diam; petals ovate, obtuse, ca 5.5 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, white; androecium ca 3.8-4 mm long, the dorsal appendages of the filaments connate into a tube ca 0.7-0.8 mm long, irregularly lobed and with the upper margin free, the anthers ca 1 mm long, the thecae slightly divergent at the base, the con- nective scales thin-scarious, oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire to inconspicuously erosu- lose, unequal, ca 2-2.5 mm long and 0.5-0.6 mm wide; ovary ca 1 mm long, the style ea 4 mm long, gradually narrowed towards the apex. Fruit unknown.
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Tree
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Distribution
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Native to Panama.
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Native
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Panama
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Specimen
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COLON: Portobelo, Las Cruces Trail, Ebinger 116 (holotype US, isotype MO).
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