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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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Species
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CAPPARIS CROTONANTHA Standl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 4:210. 1929.
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Description
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Slender trees about 8 m. tall, the branches terete, slender, stellate-tomentose when young, becoming glabrate; leaves oval or elliptic, abruptly and rather shortly subcaudate-acuminate, base rather broadly acute, 7-18 cm. long, 2.5-8.0 cm. broad, thinly membranaceous, glabrous above, stellate-puberulent beneath, the petiole about 1 cm. long; inflorescence paniculate, several-flowered, much shorter than the subtending leaves, the pedicels about 0.4 cm. long, brownish stellate- puberulent, the bracts minute, caducous; sepals equal, valvate, closed in the spheri- cal bud, ovate-oblong, broadly acute, about 3 mm. long, finely brown stellate- puberulent, subtending hemispheric, rather fleshy, glabrous glands somewhat less than 0.5 mm. long; petals ovate, sessile, rounded at the tip, about 3.5 mm. long, (92) 1948] FLORA OF PANAMA (Capparidaceae) 93 white, minutely puberulent with simple hairs; stamens 20, the filaments about 2.5 mm. long, glabrous, not enlarged at the base, attached to an androphore about 0.5 mm. long, the anthers about 1 mm. long; pistil shortly oblongoid, about 1 mm. long, glabrous, the gynophore about 1 mm. long; fruits globose, about 5 cm. in diameter "with hard green rind and white pulp."
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Panama.
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Specimen
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SAN BLAS: Perme, Cooper 66o.
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