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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/16/2013)
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Species
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Psychotria racemosa (Aubl.) Raeuschel
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Nomen, Ed. 3: 56. 1797
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Synonym
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Psychotria racemosa (Aubl.) Rich., Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 107. 1792. Nonatelia racemosa Aubl., Hist. P1. Guiane Fr. 186. 1775. TYPE: in sylvis territorii Orapu, French Guiana, Aublet, not seen.
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Description
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Shrubs to 11/2 m tall, the branchlets slender, terete, smooth, minutely puber- ulent, sometimes contracted below the nodes, the latter well spaced. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, occasionally subfalcate, to 18 cm long, to 8 cm wide, cus- pidate at the apex, the cusp to 1 cm long, acute to attenuate acute at the base, usually equilateral, the costa prominulous above, prominulous to subprominent beneath, to 0.13 cm wide at the base, the lateral veins 12-14, widely arcuate, prominulous, the veinlets prominulous, membranaceous to chartaceous, smooth, glabrous; petioles to 3 cm long, to 1.3 mm wide; stipules tending to persist, erect, free, the body scarcely measurable or to 1.5 mm long, the lobes 2, subulate, 8- 13 mm long, glabrous, fimbriate within. Inflorescences usually terminal, solitary, shortly pedunculate, 2-5 cm long, about as long as broad. Flowers with the hypanthium short, glabrate, the calycine cup scarcely measurable, lacking glands within, the teeth irregular and unequal, subulate to oblong rotund, to 0.8 mm long, acute and/or obtuse; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, 2.5 mm long, pet- aloid, glabrous or papillose puberulent outside, villose within near the filament attachment, the lobes oblong or ovate oblong, 0.8 mm long, cucullate, often papillate puberulent within; stamens 5, oblong, ca. 1 mm long, attached above the middle of the tube; stigmas 5, linear subulate, ca. 0.7 mm long, the style slender, 2 mm long, often papillate puberulent; the ovary 5-celled. Fruits usually somewhat congested, rotund, 5-6 mm in diam., 5-lobed, maturing from orange red to black; pyrenes ca. 3 mm long, lightly costate.
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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widespread throughout tropical America
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Note
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immediately recognized by the 5-carpellate ovary and fruit.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Halfway between Quebrada Huron and Puerto Palenque, Kirkbride & Duke 505 (MO). Punta Pena, near Chiriquicito, Lewis et al. 2144 (MO, UC, VEN), 2147, 2153 (both MO). Fish Creek Mountains, Wedel 2265 (MO). CANAL ZONE: Gamboa Pipeline, Correa & Haines 482 (MO). Drowned Forest, Quebrada Bonita, Dodge & Allen 17068 (MO). Drowned Forest, Quebrada Ancha, Dodge & Steyermark 17044 (MO). George Greene Memorial, Madden Forest, Dvyer & Hayden 11 (MO). Coco Solo, Gentry 6422 (MO). Madden Dam Road, Hayden 75 (MO). Fort Clayton, Hayden 174 (MO). Pipeline Road, Rio Agua Salud, Kennedy 1856 (MO). 8 km NW of Gamboa, Nee 8433 (MO). Splice S16 and S49, Rio Indio, Steyermnark & Allen 17454 (MO). Cocoli, Tyson 1617 (MO). 1 mi N of Summit Garden, Tyson & Blurm 1949 (MO). George Greene Forest Preserve, Tyson et al. 2505 (MO). BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Aviles 44, 88A (both MO); Croat 4031A, 5750A, 5971, 6182, 6189A, 6199A, 6763, 10338, 10842, 10929, 11246, 11475, 15116, 16533 (all MO); Hayden 128 (MO), 1027 (GH, MO, UC, US); Hladick s.n. (MO); Killip 39961 (MO); Shattuck 26 (MO). CHIRIQUf: Sari Bartolome, Woodson & Schery 881 (MO). COL6N: 4 km NW of Salamanca, 3 km NE of Buenos Aires, 340-410 m, Nee 9090 (MO). DARIEN: Rio Yape, Bristan 1390 (MO). Rio Chico, from Yaviza to ca. 1 hr by outboard from junction with Rio Chucunaque, Burch et al. 1122 (F, GH, K, MO, UC, US). Rio Tucutf ca. 2 hrs by outboard above Tucuti, Duke 5268 (MO). 10 mi S of El Real, Duke 5416 (MO). Near Tusijuanda, 1 day up Rio Balsa from Manene, Duke 13529 (MO). Ca. 1 mi SE of Rio Tuira, Interamerican Highway, Duke 14568 (MO). River Ganglon, Duke & Bristan 368 (MO). 1-3 mi N of Paya, Duke & Kirkbride 14007 (MO). Between Paya and Palo de los Letras, Duke & Kirkbride 14032 (MO). Cana, Stern et al. 461, 470 (both MO). 3 mi E of Santa Fe, Tyson et al. 4696 (MO). LOS SANTOS: Headwaters of Rio Pedregal, 25 mi SW of Tonosi, Leivis et al. 2900 (MO, UC). PANAMA: Rio La Maestra, Allen 2 (MO). Juan Diaz, Castillo 15 (MO). Jenine, Duke 3803, 3877 (both MO). Rio Pita, 1-3 mi above confluence with Rio Maestra, Duke 4767 (MO). Piria-Cafiasas Trail near Piria, Duke 14350 (MO). Goofy Lake, Cerro Azul, Dwyer & Hayden 8023 (GH, MO, US). Rio Pasiga, near Waterfall, Gentry 2281 (MO). 5 mi SW of Cerro Brewster, Lewis et al. 3525 (MO). Chiman, Lewis Nee 9302 (MO). Cerro Jefe, Wilbur et al. 11336 (MO). SAN BLAS: E of Cangandi-Mandinga Airport, Duke 14770 (MO). Rio Diabolo and Rio Acuati near Nargana, Duke 14874 (MO).
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