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Didymopanax pittieri Marchal ; Durand & Pittier, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30 1 : 280. 1891.
Tree, up to 20 m. high, glabrous throughout, the branchlets stout, terete; leaves and inflorescences at the apices of branchlets; petioles terete, often striate, 10-35 cm. long, the sheath 10-20 mm. broad, the ligule 15-30 mm. long; leaflets 5-9, the petiolules slender, up to 1 cm. long, somewhat swollen and jointed at the base, the blades thin-coriaceous, broadly ovate, 7-14 cm. long, 5-9 cm. broad, obtuse to rounded at the base, acuminate at the apex (the acumen 1-3 cm. long), thickened and slightly undulate at the margins, the costa often prominent, the secondary nerves spreading, slightly raised on both surfaces; inflorescence paniculate, the rachis stout, often short, the branches few, straight, spreading, up to 35 cm. long, each subtended by an oblong bract 1-2 cm. long; umbels racemosely arranged, the peduncles straight, 15-30 mm. long, subtended by oblong bracts 3-16 mm. long, the pedicels 7-20 per umbel, up to 6 mm. long; calyx soft-carnose, obconic, at anthesis about 1 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, the teeth callose-apiculate, the sinuses flattened; buds apiculate, the petals deltoidovate, about 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. broad, calyptrate; filaments very short, the anthers oblong-globose, less than 1 mm. long; stylar column carnose, short-conic, the styles 2 or 3; fruit coriaceous, subglobose, 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, the styles united nearly to the apex, the stigmas minutely divaricate, the ovary-wall hard, the seeds 2 or 3.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica and western Panama, 1500-2500 m.
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Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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