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(Last Modified On 7/3/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/3/2013)
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Genus
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Symplocos Jacq.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. PI. Carib. 5. 1760.
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Note
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TYPE: S. martinicensis Jacq.
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Description
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Shrubs or trees; twigs pubescent. Leaves alternate, entire or serrate, some- times on the same plant, mostly elliptic, glabrous, shiny above, coriaceous; petioles short; stipules wanting. Inflorescences axillary, short, many-l-flowered; bracts small; pedicels present or wanting; bractlets often present. Flowers perfect (Pan- ama), small; calyx with sepals 4-9 united halfway, imbricate, often ciliate; corolla sympetalous, divided halfway or more into 3-11 imbricate petals in 1-2 whorls; stamens 5-100, the filaments fused into a short basal column which is adnate to the corolla, the anthers small, rotund; ovary 2-6 locular, flat topped, half or more inferior, 2-4 pendant ovules in each locule, the style single, short, the stigma capitate. Fruits stony drupes surmounted by the calyx lobes.
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Habit
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Shrubs or trees
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Note
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In the most recent monograph, Brand (1901) considered Symplocos to com- prise nearly 300 species in 4 subgenera and 8 sections. The Panamanian species all belong to subsect. Ciponimastrum of sect. Symplocastrum which includes some 70 species of the New World tropics. Brand placed this section and sect. Cordy- loblaste of Indonesia together in subgenus Symplocos (Eusymplocos).
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Key
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a. Leaves manifestly pubescent beneath, mostly more than 8 cm long; calyx densely pu- bescent; fruit puberulent. b. Leaves more than 5 cm wide; corolla more than 10 mm long; petals tomentose out- side ...... 3. S. serrulata bb. Leaves less than 5 cm wide; corolla less than 10 mm long; petals mostly glabrous except for hairs near the apex and along the costa ...... 1. S. austin-smithii aa. Leaves glabrate beneath, mostly less than 8 cm long; calyx ciliate but otherwise gla- brate; fruit glabrous ...... 2. S. chiriquensis
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