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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Species
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SCLERIA BRACTEATA Cav.
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Icon. 5:34. PI. 45I. 1799.
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Description
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Plants coarse, about 1 m. high, with stout rhizomes, copiously pubescent; leaves about 1 cm. wide, with very scabrous margins, the sheaths scarcely winged; panicles axillary and terminal, the upper ones staminate, usually brownish, con- spicuously bracteate; hypogynium 3-lobed, the lobes rotund, with a dark purple margin, entire or sometimes dentate; achene discolored or usually white, 2-3 mm. long, subglobose, apiculate-verrucose or subtuberculate, pubescent, at least on the tubercles.
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Distribution
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Moist thickets and borders of forests, Mexico and West Indies to Paraguay and Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Balboa, Standley 25523; Ancon Hill, Piper 5544; Standley 2633I; Killip 4069; Summit, Standley 26957; Corozal, Standley 29047. PANAMA: Rio Tapia, Standley 28I73; Taboga Island, Standley 280I2; G. S. Miller 2020; Pittier 36I5; Mac- bride 2829; Allen 113.
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