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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Species
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TERMINALIA CHIRIQUENSIS Pittier
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18:238. 1917.
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Description
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Tree up to 30 m. tall. Branchlets rufous-sericeous when young, soon glabres- cent. Leaves spirally arranged, often pseudo-whorled at the ends of the branchlets, membranaceous to chartaceous, petiolate, petiole 2-18 mm. long, rufous-sericeous when young, lamina elliptic, 10-18 X 4-6 cm., rufous-sericeous when young and retaining some pubescence on the nerves when adult, otherwise nearly glabrous, minutely verruculose above, pellucid-punctate at least in some stages, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Flowers yellowish-green, sessile, apparently all perfect, in axillary spikes 8-11 cm. Fruit transversely oval, about 1.5-2.0 X 2.5-3.5 cm., pale greenish yellow, glabrous, subsessile, samaroid, 3-winged, the 2 lateral very broad and pronounced, about 1.5 cm. wide, the 1 adaxial merely carinate and less than 1 mm. wide.
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Tree
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Distribution
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Panama, Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Almirante, Cooper d Slater 55, Seibert 1534.
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Note
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The description of the fruit is taken from Skutch 4252 (MO), collected in the vicinity of El General, Prov. San Jose, Costa Rica, the flowering companion sheet of which (Skutch 3990, MO) agrees well with Seibert I534 (MO).
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