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Pernettia coriacea

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Pernettia coriacea Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: d>5. 1851
A low or depressed shrub with strigose-setose branchlets or glabrous; leaf-blades ovate, oblong-ovate, or oblong, mostly 1-2 cm. long, usually acute, serrate or crenate-serrate, shining above, dull and glabrous or nearly so beneath, reticulate in age; calyx-lobes ovate to lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm. long; corolla 5-7 mm. long; stamens 3-4 mm. long; berries subglobose, 5-7 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama.
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John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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