(Last Modified On 10/26/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/26/2012)
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Genus
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BOMAREA Mirb.
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Contributor
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E. P. KILLIP
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Hist. Nat. Pl. 9:71. 1804.
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Description
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Vines (the Panama species), often high-climbing, generally with fibrous, often tuberiferous roots and resupinate leaves, the stem unbranched, terminating in an umbel of showy flowers, the rays simple or branched; perianth funnel-shaped, the tube none, the outer segments (sepals) prevailingly oblong or oblanceolate, firm in texture, the inner (petals) unguiculate, thinner than the sepals and sub- equaling or exceeding them; anthers oblong, basifixed; fruit usually 3-angled and dehiscent, with red, subglobose seeds.
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a. Umbel rays usually more than 10, unbranched, ebracteolate or with a small bractlet near base; sepals red or orange, shorter than the petals; plants of the highlands. b. Rays and ovary glabrous, the rays very slender - -1. B. CHIRIQUINA bb. Rays and ovary viscous-tomentulose - --2. B. HIRSUTA aa. Umbel rays usually fewer than 10, furcate or with several divaricate pedicels, bracteolate; sepals pink, subequaling or longer than the petals; plants of the lowlands. b. Ovary and rays pubescent, the rays bearing several subsecund, divar- icate pedicels - -- - -- - - _ - 3. B. CHONTALENSIS bb. Ovary and rays glabrous, the rays furcate, the branches ascending. c. Flowers 4 cm. or more long; bractlets leaf-like, more than 3 cm. long _ - -- -- 4. B. ALLENI cc. Flowers smaller; bractlets much reduced, not more than 2 cm. long ----- -- -- 5. B. EDULIS
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