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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Species
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WELFIA GEORGII Wendl. ex Burret
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PlaceOfPublication
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Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 63:125. 1930.
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Description
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Commanding tree 20 m. and more tall, trunk obscurely ringed with leaf-scars, 30 cm. diameter, without a crownshaft: leaves evenly both oppositedly and' alter- nately pinnate, glabrous but petiole and rachis more or less furfuraceous, blade 3-4 m. long or twice that length on large trees; petiole 1 m. rong and, with the rachis, strongly ridged; pinnae often above 150, from 50 to 75 cm. long to 1 m. and more for the larger ones, and 3.5-5.5 and up to 11 cm. broad, narrowly pointed, reduplicate at base, strongly many-ribbed and midrib usually not clearly separable, splitting lengthwise in age into narrow strands and appearing therefore to be multiple: main cymba 60 cm. long, woody, many-ribbed and furrowed and split- ting 'with age; spadices 1 or 2 at one time, peduncle flat and stout and about 10 cm. long from which several stout rachillae 30-40 cm. hang close to the trunk, the heavy rachillae octagonal and about 3 cm. thick with rows of flowers sunken deep in pits: fruit oblong-ellipsoid or almond-like, tapering in both directions, 3.5-4.5 cm. long and 17 mm. thick, glabrous; seed 1, albumen equable.
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Habit
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tree
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Distribution
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Panama, Costa Rica. First described from Sarapiqui River, northeastern Costa Rica; collected on Rio Hondo, Plains of Santa Clara, Costa Rica. Costa Rican and Panamian trees need to be critically compared, as well as the insufficiently described W. regia of Colombia.
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Common
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Palma Conga
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Quebrada Lopez, Allen 2112. COCLE: vicinity of La Mesa, El Valle de Anton, Allen 2565.
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