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(Last Modified On 1/29/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/29/2013)
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Species
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CEIBA ROSEA (Seem.) K. Schum.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3 (6): 63. 1895.-Fig. 4.
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Synonym
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Chorisia rosea Seem., Bot. Voy. Herald 84. 1853. Xylon roseum (Seem.) 0. Ktze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3(2): 24. 1898. Ceiba Allenii Woodson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 29: 359. 1942. Spirotheca Allenii (Woodson) Cuatr., Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. 9: 167. 1954.
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Description
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Tree, sometimes strangler epiphyte (according to Allen 2924), 10-22 m. tall, the trunk up to 40 cm. in diam., the branchlets thick, rimose and aculeate. Leaves 5- to 6-foliolate, glabrous, the petiole 5.5-11 cm. long; leaflets shortly petiolulate, the blade slightly obovate, acute and decurrent at the base, acuminate at the apex, 4.5-11.5 cm. long and 1.5-3.8 cm. wvide, the nerves prominent especially beneath. Flowers grouped toward the apex of the branchlets, solitary or sometimes geminate, 6-9 cm. long, the pedicel thick, ca. 2 cm. long and 0.5-0.7 cm. broad, glabrous; calyx cupuliform, 2- to 5-lobulate, 2.2-2.8 cm. long and 2-3 cm. broad, glabrous out- side, silky-villous inside, persistent; petals oblong, rounded, 6-9 cm. long and ca. 1.5 cm. wide, thick, old rose outside, creamy white inside, shortly tomentellous on both sides; staminal column 2.5-7 cm. long, the lower part cylindric, thickened, 1-2.5 cm. long and ca. 1 cm. in diam., shortly tomentellous, the upper part conical, 1.5-4.5 cm. long and glabrous, the filaments 1.5-2 cm. long and bearing each 2 superposed anthers; anthers linear and slightly flexuose, 2-thecate, the thecae parallel, the upper anther ca. 1.8 cm. long and bilobulate at the apex, the lower one ca. 2.4-2.8 cm. long and deeply bifid at the base; ovary superior, oblong, 0.8-1.6 cm. high and 0.5-0.8 cm. in diam., shortly tomentellous; style more or less 5-angular, 3-4.5 cm. long, midway suddenly dilated upward, scatteringly and shortly velutinous near the base; stigma obscurely and bluntly lobulate. Capsule unknown.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Native to Panama, on hills and forested slopes.
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Specimen
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COCLE: region north of El Valle de Ant6n, 800-1,000 m., Allen 2924; Cerro Pajita, 1,000-1,200 m., P. & D. Allen 4193. DARIEN: Cerro de Garagara, Sambu basin, 500-974 m., Pittier 5673. VERAGUAS: vicinity of Santa Fe, Cerro Tute, 2,500 ft., Allen 4413.
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Note
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the type specimen: Veraguas, Volcano of Chiriqui, Seemann s.n.
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