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Coccocypselum hispidulum (Standl.) Standl.

Comprehensive Description

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Tontanea hispidula Standley, sp. nov
Branches slender, pilose with stiff, whitish, appressed or ascending hairs; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petioles slender, 0.5-1.2 cm. long, pubescent like the stems; leaf-blades broadly ovate, rounded-ovate, or oblong-ovate, 1.7-3.5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, rounded at the base and short-decurrent, acutish to rounded at the apex, hispid above with long slender yellow hairs, paler beneath, sparsely or densely hispid; heads mostly sessile, sometimes very shortpedunculate, the bracts linear or subulate, 3-4 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium hispid, the calyx-lobes linear, acute, 2-4 mm. long; corolla bluish-white, 7-9 mm. long, sparsely hispid; fruit oval, 8-15 mm. long, sparsely hispid; seeds brown, about 1 mm. broad, densely tuberculate.
Type collected at Chagres, Panama, 1850, A. Fendler 179 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 42058). Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1921. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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