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Odontocarya truncata Standl.  
Family: Menispermaceae
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Enrique Moreno & David Roubik
  • Flora of Barro Colorado Island
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The Flora of Barro Colorado Island by Thomas Croat
Glabrous, slender vine. Leaves alternate; petioles 4.5-7.5 cm long; blades ovate, acuminate, truncate to shallowly cordate at base, 8-13 cm long, 5-9 cm wide, with sunken, discolored domatia in axils on lower surface; venation palmate at base. Inflorescences racemose, axillary (sometimes at leafless nodes), solitary; sepals of staminate flowers 6, membranaceous, the outer 3 ovate, ca 0.5 mm long and wide, the inner 3 obovate, concave, ca 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide; petals of staminate flowers 6, narrowly oblanceolate, ca 1.5 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; stamens 6, ca 1.3 mm long; filaments ca 1 mm long, the outer 3 connate to the middle, the inner 3 connate their entire length. Pistillate infructescences 10-20 cm long; fruiting pedicels 1-1.5 cm long; pistillate flowers unknown. Fruits of 1-3 drupes, these oblong-ellipsoid, ca 2 cm long and 1-2 cm diam, orange-yellow, drying blackish, with a small ridge around the margin. Croat 4945. Rare, at the edge of clearings. Seasonal behavior uncertain. Known to flower in January and fruit from April to September.
Odontocarya truncata
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Enrique Moreno & David Roubik
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Andrés Hernández
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