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(Last Modified On 10/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 10/17/2013)
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Species
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Havetiopsis flexilis P1. & Tr.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. Ser. 4. 14: 246. 1860.
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Note
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TYPE: Brazil, Spruce 3294 (P, not seen).
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Synonym
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Havetia flexilis (P1. & Tr.) Vesque in DC., Monog. Phan. 8: 155. 1893; Epharm. 3, t. 72, 73. 1892.
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Description
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Dioecious epiphytic shrubs or small trees to 4 m tall; surface of youngest twigs sometimes wrinkling somewhat on drying (see Clusia minor above). Leaves obovate, mostly 6-10 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, apically rounded or emarginate, basally cuneate, the lateral nerves numerous, conspicuous or not, straight, ar- cuate or slightly recurving proximally, arcuate distally forming an even submar- ginal vein, minor venation mostly obscure, coriaceous, the margins drying slightly revolute; petioles ca. 5 mm long. Inflorescences short, mostly 1-3 cm long, sev- eral-flowered dichasial panicles, internodes angled, bracts scale like, cucullate, paired, thick, to 2 mm long or rudimentary; pedicels obsolete. Flower buds glo- bose, sepals 4, decussate, rotund, cucullate, the margins scarious, ca. 5 mm long, the outer- pair shorter, basally united; petals 4, rotund, ca. 5 mm long, greenish marked with purplish; stamens 4, ca. 2 mm long, the filaments basally thickened, about as long as the anthers, the anthers introrse; in pistillate flowers the anthers reduced in size, the filaments connivent into a tetragonal column; styles 4. Fruit a fleshy capsule with 4 rounded angles, depressed globose or subcylindrical, to 1.5 cm long, styles persistent, erect, short, dehiscing into 4 valves, seeds nu- merous, orange, ca. 3.5 mm long, immersed in a red-orange matrix.
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Habit
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shrubs or small trees
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Note
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Because of the paucity of material at hand, many details for the above de- scription were taken from Vesque (1893) and Croat (1978).
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Distribution
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ranges from Panama to Brazil
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occurring in tropical wet and moist forests of low elevations.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Croat 6621, 8259, 12505, 14844 (all MO), 16195 (MO, SCZ); Foster 1100 (DUKE), 1767 (DUKE, MO, PMA, SCZ). CHIRIQUT: Haras San Miguel just N of Con- cepci6n near Rio Mula, Folsom 3945 (MO). COLON: Al este de la zona montafiosa de Santa Rita, Correa & Dressler 764 (MO).
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