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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 pittieri (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 pittieri Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 25. 260. 1911.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, to 8 m high; branchlets striate, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming almost glabrate. Leaves odd-pinnate, 35-48 cm long; petioles striate,
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Description
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canaliculate above, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming minutely puberulent, 7.5-17.5 cm long; leaflets 3-7, obovate, ovate, or lanceolate to elliptic, abruptly short-acuminate, the laterals inequilateral basally, subcoriaceous, the margins un- dulate, yellowish-woolly, becoming glabrate, the midribs becoming minutely pu- berulent above and beneath, the laterals 16-22 cm long and 7-9.5 cm wide, the terminals 16-23 cm long and 8-13 cm wide; petiolules canaliculate, thickened apically, yellowish-woolly when young, becoming minutely puberulent, the later- als 12-18 mm long, the terminals 38-62 mm long. Inflorescences axillary pani- cles, branched from the base, yellowish-woolly, becoming appressed-pubescent, 1-7 cm long in bud, to 9.5 cm long in fruit. Flowers yellow, 4-merous; pedicels yel- lowish-woolly, ca. 1 mm long; calyx yellowish-wooly, 4-lobed, the lobes triangular, acute; petals 4, yellowish-woolly. Fruits oblong, more or less acute apically, stipi- tate, sparsely appressed-pubescent, brown, with abundant yellowish lenticels, the mesocarp thick, white, 3-4 cm long and 1.5-3 cm in diameter, dehiscing by 2-4 valves; pyrenes 1-2, brownish.
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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 November and to fruit in April.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Rio Teribe, between Quebrada Huron and Quebrada Schlunjik, Kirkbride & Duke 462 (MO). Vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Water Valley, von Wedel 1566 (F, GH, MO).
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Note
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Protium pittieri occurs in areas of evergreen seasonal forest. The fruits are edible (fide Kirkbride & Duke 462).
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