Tococa aristata Benth.

CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM EXPEDITION TO VENEZUELA
Chimantà Massif
No. 76050
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Estado Bolivar	.
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shrub 10 feet tall; leaves membranous, dark
green and rugose above with, sulcate nerves,
paler green and shining below with raised
nerves; fruiting rachis dark rose-red; fruit
blue-black, subglobose; petals fieshy-waxy,
greenish-yellow, spreading; style and filament
greenish-white; anthers pale lavender; bracts
preceding anthesis conspicuous, pale green
below, dull purplish-rose above
Vicinity of Techin6-Mer6, along Rio Aparur€n, between mouth of
Rio Aparuren and Kon-qu£n
altitude 470 meters
Julian A. Steyermark	July 8, 1953
DMribuitd by Chicago Natural Hitiory Muttum and Tht Ntw York Botanical Garden
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