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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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CALYPTROCARYA GLOMERULATA (Brongn.) Urban
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PlaceOfPublication
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Symb. Antill. 2:169. 1900.
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Synonym
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Becquerelia Glomerulata Brongn. in Duperrey, Voy. Coquille 2:163. 1829. Calyptrocarya fragifera Kunth, Enum. 2:364. 1837. Calyptrocarya Palmetto Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 21:195. 1842.
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Description
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Leafy perennial, with short thick rootstocks; culms 1.5-6 dm. high; leaves glabrous except for the scabrous margins, linear, 2-9 mm. wide, 3- nerved, usually longer than the culms; spikelets in glomerules on rays of compound or simple axillary corymbs; pistillate spikelet terminal, i-flowered, without bristles, the staminate spikelets lateral, 1- to 4-flowered; stamen 1; style- bifid; achene brownish, globose, puberulent, about 1 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Occasional in forests or swamps, Central America to Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Old Bank Is- Land, Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2030. COLON: Fat', Pittier 3850. CANAL ZONE: headwaters of Rio Chinilla, Maxon 6893; Chagres, Fendler 357; Colon, 0. Kuntze 1848. PANAMA: Juan Diaz, Killip 4072.
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