Persea anomala Britton & P.Wilson
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Authority
Contributions from The New York Botanical Garden: Volume X 1921-1923.
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Family
Lauraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub or tree, sometimes io m. tall, with appressed-pubescent twigs. Leaves lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, 4-10 cm. long or less, 1.8-5.5 cm - broad, rounded, obtuse, or acutish at the apex, rounded or somewhat acutish at the base, glabrous and reticulate-veined on both sides, the petioles slender, 1-1.8 cm. long; branches of the inflorescence pubescent with appressed hairs; calyx pubescent, greenish, its lobes unequal, the outer broadly ovate, about 1 mm. long, 0.7 mm. broad, the inner elliptic or broadly ovate, 1.7-2 mm. long, 1.5-1.7 mm. broad; berry subglobose, 11 mm. long, black.
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Distribution
Sierra Maestra, Oriente (Leon 10707, type; 10975; 10976; 10079; 1 1057).
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