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(Last Modified On 7/12/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/12/2013)
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Species
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Burmeistera kirkbridei Wilbur
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Note
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TYPE: Panama, Kirkbride & Duke 984 (MO, holotype).
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Description
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Shrublets; stems terete, glabrous, purplish. Principal leaves with blades el- liptic, 3.5-7 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, ca. 2-3 times as long as wide, apically acute to acuminate, basally cuneate, marginally indistinctly serrulate with ca. 2-4 callosities per cm, glabrous on both surfaces; petioles glabrous, 1.2-3 cm long. Flowers 1.2-1.5 cm long; pedicels solitary in the upper leaf axils, ascendant, slender, glabrous, ebracteolate, ca. 3 cm long; hypanthium in anthesis obconic, glabrous, basally acute, ca. 3 mm long, 3 mm in diameter; calyx lobes ovate or oblong-elliptic, acute, entire, glabrous, ca. 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; corolla densely but inconspicuously short-pubescent with spreading, stiff trichomes to 0.1 mm long, dark purplish and reportedly tipped with pink, the tube ca. 6 mm long, 2.5-3 mm in diameter, the lobes ovate with an acute to acuminate tip, the 2 upper lobes ca. 6 mm long, the 2 lateral lobes ca. 4 mm long, the lowermost lobe ca. 3 mm long; filament tube distally puberulent, ca. 7 mm long, the anthers all appressed puberulous externally, the longest anther ca. 2 mm long and the shortest ca. 1.5 mm long. Fruits and seeds unknown.
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Habit
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Shrublets
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Distribution
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This species is known only from the holotype collected in the elfin forest at the divide separating the provinces of Bocas del Toro and Chiriquf, Panama.
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Note
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The flowers of Burmeistera kirkbridei are among the smallest known in the genus.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO-CHIRIQUI: Elfin forest on the Bocas del Toro-Chiriqui border at the divide on the Chiriquicito-Caldera Trail, Kirkbride & Duke 984 (MO).
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