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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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THECOPHYLLUM CRASSIFLORUM Mez & Werckle
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3:138. 1903.
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Description
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Plant 1 m. high. Leaves 5-6 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, inconspicuous; blades ligulate, acuminate, 4 cm. wide, green, concolorous. Scape stout, 5 dm. long. Scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, the lower ones erect, narrowly triangular, the upper ones elliptic-ovate with short reflexed blades. Inflorescence densely cylindric but interrupted at base, 2-3 dm. long, 4 cm. thick. Primary bracts suberect with bright red recurved apices, broadly ovate, triangu- lar-acute, inflated, the lower ones exceeding the flowers. Floral bracts strongly asymmetric, obliquely truncate, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, coriaceous, subglabrous. Flowers 1 or 2 in the axil of each primary bract, sessile or subsessile, 30 mm. long. Sepals subelliptic, obtuse, asymmetric, 16 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, even, dull.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Potrero Muleto to summit, Volcain de Chiriqui, alt. 3500-4000 m., Wood- son & Schery 453.
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