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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Species
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CHLOROPHORA TINCTORIA (L.) Gaud.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bot. Voy. Freycinet 508. 1830.
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Synonym
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Morus tinctoria L. Sp. P1. 986. 1753. Morus xanthoxylon L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2:1267. 1759. Broussonetia tinctoria (L.) HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:32. 1817. Broussonetia plumerii Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3:901. 1826. Morus tataiba Vell. Fl. Flum. 10: t. 2I. 1827. Maclura tinctoria (L.) D. Don, ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2. 2:87. 1841. Maclura plumiera D. Don, ex Steud. loc. cit. 1841. Morus plumiera (D. Don) Burm. ex Steud. loc. cit. 1841. Broussonetia xanthoxylon (L.) Mart. in Flora 24: 2 Beibl. 10. 1841. Broussonetia brasiliensis Mart. loc. cit. 1841. Maclura sempervirens Ten. Cat. Hort. Bot. Nap. 87. 1845. Maclura xanthoxylon (L.) Endl. Gen. P1. Suppl. 42:34. 1847. Maclura chlorocarpa Liebm. in Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 5 ser. 2:314. 1851. Maclura polyneura Miq. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 41:154. 1853. Maclura afinis Miq. loc. cit. 155. 1853. Maclura subintegerrima Miq. loc. cit. 157. 1853. Maclura velutina Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2:82. 1856.
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Description
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Trees, reputedly to 30 m. in height. Leafy twigs rather slender, somewhat flexuose, glabrous, developing a yellowish gray bark. Leaves alternate, distichous, petiolate, the blade quite variable, broadly oval to ovate, obovate or oblong, the tip usually subcaudate-acuminate, the base usually strongly inequilateral and more or less cordate, closely serrate to entire, 3-12 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, firmly membranaceous, glabrous to minutely puberulent above and below, the petiole 5- 10 mm. long, slender; stipules lateral, leaving a scar about half-surrounding the stem or less, narrowly lanceolate, 2-10 mm. long. Staminate spikes slender, 3-10 cm. long, bearing innumerable densely congested flowers interspersed with minute puberulent spatulate glandular-carinate bracteoles about 6 mm. long: tepals 4, broadly oval, minutely puberulent, about 3 mm. long; stamens 4, the filaments about 5 mm. long, strongly involute before anthesis, the anthers broadly oval, about 1.5 mm. long; pistillode about 1 mm. long. Pistillate heads globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, very shortly pedunculate, the flowers very densely congested and interspersed with spatulate glandular-carinate bracteoles about 6 mm. long: tepals 4, narrowly spatulate, about 6 mm. long, minutely puberulent; ovary superior, obovoid, about 4 mm. long, the lateral filiform densely papillate stigma about 10 mm. long. Fruit a very slightly fleshy, globose aggregate to about 2 cm. in diameter.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to Argentina; Antilles, at low elevations.
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Note
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Mora or morillo and macano; fustic. The wood is extremely durable and resistant to insects and decay according to Allen (Allen, P. H. The Rainforests of Golfo Dulce. Gaines- ville, Fla. 1956).
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Common
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Mora morillo
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macano fustic
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: between France Field and Catival, Standley 3030I; Balboa Heights, Killip 3000; Darien Sta., Standley 3i600. CHIRIQUI: Puerto Armuelles, Woodson d Schery 899, Stern d Chambers I36; Progreso, Cooper d Slater 237. DARIEN: Garachine, Pittier 5695. PANAMA: Las Sabanas, Zetel 3684; Panama, Standley 26833; Rio Tapia, Standley 28200; Rio Tecumen, Standley 2938i; Chepo, Pittier 47I0.
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