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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/29/2012)
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, Von Wedel I294; Water Valley, Vol Wedel I528, I58o, I768A; Quebrada Nigua, Almirante Bay, Von Wedel 7; Garay Creek, Von Wedel 2630. CANAL ZONE: Drayton Trail, Barro Colorado Island, Shattuck 603. CHIRIQUI: forest, Puerto Armuelles, Davidson 1189.
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Species
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EPIPHYLLUM PITTIERI (Weber) Britton & Rose
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16:258. 1913.
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Synonym
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Phyllocactus pittieri Weber, in Bois, Dict. Hort. 2:957. 1898.
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Description
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Succulent epiphytic shrubs, the primary stem joints terete or weakly angulate, 5-10 mm. thick when young, probably thicker when old, the secondary stem joints linear-elliptic, acute to obtuse at the tip, decurrent to a short terete sub- petiolar base, about 2-10 dm. long and 2-6 cm. broad, rather narrowly serrate, thick and callose-marginate in dessication, the areoles 3-6 cm. distant, naked or indefinitely papillate, borne superficially upon the upper broad margin of the serra- tions. Flowers nocturnal, relatively small and inconspicuous, white, the perianth tube about 6-10 cm. long, narrowly tubular, about 4 mm. in diameter at the base, abruptly dilated into an extremely short conic throat about 7 mm. broad at the orifice, bearing few and distant inconspicuous petaloid bracts, the perianth segments linear-elliptic, acuminate, spreading, the inner about 4-5 cm. long, the ovary narrowly oblongoid, inconspicuously bracteate and tuberculate. Berry oblongoid, about 2 cm. long, deep red when ripe.
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