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(Last Modified On 4/5/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/5/2013)
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Species
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Protium costaricense (Rose) Engl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nat. Pfl. ed. 2. 19a: 414. 1931.
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Synonym
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Icica costaricensis Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 25: 259. 1911. Icica confusa Rose, op. cit. 25: 260. 1911. Protium confusum (Rose) Pittier, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 20: 479. 1922. Protium salvozae Standley, Jour. Arnold Arbor, 11: 122. 1930.
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Description
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Trees, 4-8 m high; branchlets densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, marked with light lenticels. Leaves odd-pinnate, 13-44 cm long, 10.5-24 cm wide; petioles canaliculate, 2.5-6.5 cm long, they and rachises densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent; leaflets (3-) 5-7 (-9), elliptic, oblong, ovate, or obovate, slightly inequilateral, abruptly acuminate, cune- ate basally, subcoriaceous, margins entire, brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, especially on the veins, becoming glabrate between the veins, the laterals 6-14 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide, the terminals 8.5-11.5 cm long and 3.5-5.5 cm wide, the lowermost pair smallest; petiolules slightly swollen apically, densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, the laterals 5-10 mm long, the terminals 18-26 mm long. Inflorescences axillary panicles, few- branched from the base, densely brownish-hirtellous and minutely puberulent, becoming glabrate, 1-5 cm long. Flowers yellow, 4-merous; pedicels sparsely puberulent, 1.5-2 mm long, calyx cupuliform, 1 mm high, 4-lobed, the lobes broadly triangular, acuminate, a little shorter than the tube, sparsely puberulent; petals 4 oblong-triangular, the upper half spreading, sparsely puberulent on both surfaces, the margins papillose, inflexed apiculate apically, 3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; stamens 8, 2 mm high in carpellate flowers, the filaments subulate, dilated
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Habit
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Trees
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Description
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basally; disc 8-lobed, annular, glabrous, less than 1 mm high, surrounding the base of the ovary; ovary ovoid, pubescent, tapering into the style, 1.5 mm high in carpellate flowers, the style persistent in fruit, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruits obliquely ovoid, acute, stipitate, puberulent to almost glabrate, the exocarp red, spotted with lighter lenticels, 13-16 mm long and 11-12 mm in diameter; pyrenes 1, white.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Note
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In Panama known to flower in February and to fruit in May and September.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, wet forest, Standley 41081 (US); near Cabin 2, Salvoza 948 (F); clearing at Drayton House, Croat 5769, 8262 (both MO); shore of cove W of Drayton House, Woodworth & Vestal 605 (A, F, MO); Drayton House to Armour Cabin, Bangham 513 (F holotype of P. salvozae; A, US, isotypes); WheelerTrail, 1600, Croat 6295 (MO).
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Note
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According to the label on Croat 8262, the plant has "no strong odor," and the bark is "like strong sandpaper." It occurs in monsoon forests.
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