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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2013)
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Species
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Morinda rojoc L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 176. 1753.
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Synonym
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Morinda yucatanensis Greenm. Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser. 2. 262. 1907. TYPE: Mexico, Gaumer 362 (F, holotype).
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Description
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Shrubs, often scandent, to 2 m tall; branchlets angular, smooth, glabrous, cracking, often drying tan, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong, obovate oblong or narrowly obovate oblong, often falcate, 4.0-15.5 cm long, 1.7-4.0(-5.0) cm wide, usually 4 times longer than wide, acute or attenuate acute at the base, the costa slender and prominulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 5-7, strongly arcuate, prominulous, the intervenal areas smooth, the veinlets usually evanescent, papyraceous, glabrous above but minutely farinose or punctate, bar- bate along the costa, often farinose or punctate beneath, the margin slightly in- volute; petioles to 0.5 cm long, slender, ca. 1 mm wide, glabrous; stipules tri- angular, to 4 mm long, ca. 5 mm wide at the base, the median awn subulate, about the same length as the body. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, the peduncle to 0.3 cm long, stout, puberulent, the terminal head of flowers ca. 0.5 cm in diam. Flowers with the hypanthium cupuliform, ca. 1 mm long, the calycine cup ca. 0.35 mm long, glabrous, the margin undulate, the lobes 5, indistinct, obtuse, puberu- lent; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, ca. 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, carnose, glabrous outside, densely white villose inside above the middle, the lobes as long as the tube; stamens 5-6, the anthers ca. 2 mm long, obtuse, the filaments slender; stigmas 2, ca. 1.5 mm long, the style ca. 3 mm long. Fruits rotund, 1-2 cm in diam.
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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occurs in Florida, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America.
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Note
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It is interesting that all of the Panama collections of the species were made on or near beaches.
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Specimen
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COLON: Guaira (mainland opposite Isla Grande), d'Arcy 4053 (MO). SAN BLAS: Mulatuppu (Rio Ibedi), Duke 8510 (MO). Airport at Irandi, Duke 6511 (MO). Mulatuppu, Duke 8520 (MO). Isla de Soskatupu, Duke 8966 (MO). Nargana Island, Gentry 1514 (MO). Isla Ustupo, W of Playon Chico, Gentry 6338 (MO). Isla de Soskatupu, Kirkbride 178, 187A (both MO). Nargana, Tyson & Dwyer 1173 (MO).
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