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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 BADUCCA L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 504. 1753.
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Synonym
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Capparis frondosa Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 24. 1760. Capparis triflora Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 10. 1768. Capparis cuneata DC. Prodr. 1:249. 1824. Capparis stenopbhylla Standl. in Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 13:437. 1923.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees 1-5 m. tall, the branches terete, rather slender, glabrous, with greenish gray bark; leaves strikingly heteromorphic, the lower larger and definitely petiolate, the uppermost congested, markedly smaller, and sessile or sub- sessile, oblong-elliptic to ovate, obtuse to acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, 6-20 cm. long, 2-7 cm. broad, dark green, glabrous, the midrib elevated above, the petioles 6 cm. long to essentially obsolete; inflorescences of short, slender, few- to several-flowered racemes in the upper leaf axils, shorter than the subtending leaves, the pedicels about 0.5-0.7 mm. long, glabrous; sepals open in the bud, ovate-trigonal, acute, about 2 mm. long, glabrous, subtending a low, fleshy gland less than 0.5 mm. high; petals broadly oval, sessile, rounded at the tip, 8-10 mm. long, white, glabrous; stamens about 100, the filaments about 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, not thickened at the base, attached to a discoid androphore about 2 mm. in diameter and less than 1 mm. high, the anthers about 1.5 mm. long; pistil oblongoid, 4 mm. long, glabrous, the stigma depressed, the gynophore about 1 cm. long; fruits irregularly oblong-siliquiform, more or less moniliform, 3-7 cm. long, about 5 mm. thick, glabrous, orange-red, the gynophore about 1.5 cm. long.
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Habit
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Shrubs trees
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to Brazil and Peru; Antilles.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, StandleY 3I284, 3I298, 3I378, 4II02, Wilson 34, Frost io6, Maxon, Harvey d Valentine 6822; Rio Pedro Miguel, near East Paraiso, moist forest, Standley 29945; vicinity of Gatuncillo, Piper 562I. DARIEN: Marraganti and vicinity, alt. 10-200 ft., Williams ii49. PANAMA: Taboga Island, moist thicket, Standley 27872.
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