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Agouticarpa williamsii (Standl.) C. H. Perss.

Comprehensive Description

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Genipa williamsii Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 8: 642. 1918.
Tree, 10 meters high, the trunk 12.5 cm. in diameter, the branchlets reddish-brown,
glabrous, the internodes short; stipules broadly obovate, 1.8 cm. long, 1.2 cm. wide, cuneate
at the base, rounded at the apex, brownish, sparsely strigose outside; petioles stout, 1-2.5 cm.
long, glabrate; leaf-blades obovate or oblong-obovate, 12.5-19 cm. long, 6-9.5 cm. wide, acute
or cuneate at the base, rounded at the apex, chartaceous, green above, sublustrous, glabrous,
the venation plane or prominulous, brownish beneath, strigose along the veins, the costa stout,
prominent, the lateral veins slender, 8 or 9 on each side, ascending at an obtuse angle, nearly
straight, laxly anastomosed near the margin; fruit subglobose, 4.5 cm. in diameter, terminal,
solitary, subsessile, the pericarp very thick; seeds (very immature) numerous.
Type locality: Vicinity of Cana, Panama, altitude 1350 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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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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