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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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CLEOME PUBESCENS Sims
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PlaceOfPublication
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Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 1857. 1816.
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Description
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Rather stout herbs as much as 1.5 m. tall; stems densely glandular-pubescent to essentially glabrous, unarmed; leaves alternate, palmately compound, the petioles 7-15 cm. long, pilose, the leaflets 5-7, elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, narrowly cuneate, 5-14 cm. long, essentially glabrous or minutely glandular-puberulent beneath; inflorescence a many-flowered raceme, the peduncle densely glandular-puberulent, greatly elongate in fruit, the bracts foliaceous, dis- tinctly petiolate, the uppermost about 2 mm. long, grading downward to the foliage leaves, the pedicels about 1.5 cm. long, densely glandular-puberulent, accrescent in fruit; sepals about 3 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, sparsely glandular- puberulent; petals pink or white, obovate, about 1.5 cm. long, sessile; stamens 6, the filaments very unequal, attached somewhat above the base of the androgyno- phore, 1.5-2.0 cm. long, the anthers about 5 mm. long; disc very distinct and glandular, eccentric, persisting in fruit; ovary about 5 mm. long, minutely pubenilent-papillate, the stigma nearly sessile, the gynophore about 1 cm. long, greatly accrescent in fruit; silique narrowly fusiform, 5-10 cm. long, about 3-5 mm. thick, continuous, minutely and rather sparsely puberulent; seeds cochleate- reniform, about 1.5 mm. long, brown, minutely and rather sparsely tuberculate; fruiting gynophores longer than the pedicels, 4-5 cm. long, essentially straight.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Costa Rica to Brazil; Dominican Republic.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Boca de Pauarand6, Sambui River, alt. 20 m., Pittier 5586. VERAGUAS: Isla de Uva, Contreras group, Pittier 5514.
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