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Colubrina heteroneura Standl.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Colubrina

Characteristics

Shrubs, or trees, to 7 m high, armed with spines 7-25(-35) mm long, the younger stems pubescent, the trichomes brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to obovate, retuse, entire to slightly undulate, obtuse basally, to 7(-8) cm long and 5(-6) cm wide, glandular at the base of the midribs, without glands on the lower surface, firmly membranaceous, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on the veins beneath; petioles 5-10 mm long. Inflorescences cymes, sessile, brown-pubescent. Flowers with the slender pedicels to ca. 12 mm long; calyx-lobes ca. 1 mm long, brown-pubescent on the outer surface; petals more or less ovate,
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somewhat keeled and notched apically, less than 1 mm long, inserted at the margin of the disc, subsessile, enclosing the stamens; stamens slightly longer than the petals, the anthers ca. 0.3 mm long; disc lining the cup, more or less 10-lobed; style ca. 0.4 mm long, the lobes 0.1-0.2 mm long. Capsules sub-sphaerical, weakly 3-lobed, the floral tube adhering to the lower third, ca. 6-8 mm in diameter; mature seeds unknown.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 7.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Colubrina heteroneura world distribution map, present in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador

Conservation status

Colubrina heteroneura threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:63450-2
WFO ID wfo-0000615258
COL ID XBD7
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Synonyms

Colubrina nelsonii Rhamnus gonzalezii Colubrina heteroneura Cormonema multiflorum Colubrina nelsonii Cormonema nelsonii Colubrina multiflora Colubrina multiflora Ziziphus heteroneura Rhamnus spinosa
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