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Volume 91, Number 4
2004
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Croat
Revision of Dieffenbachia
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Figure 30. Distribution map. A. Dieffenbachia nitidipetiolata and D. panamensis.-B. Dieffenbachia seguine.
1 to 4 per axil, bracteoles to 25 cm long, peduncle
(7)12-22 cm long, 1-1.5 cm x 0.8-1.3 cm diam.,
subterete, pale medium green, weakly glossy, faintly
and finely striate-streaked, spathe (16)25-32 cm
long, narrowly acuminate to cuspidate-acuminate at
apex (the tip turned back), medium-green, weakly
glossy to semiglossy outside, equally colored and
glossy within with weak, darker, short oblique lines
running between the parallel vertical veins
throughout the length of the spathe, the spathe tube
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S12 cm long, (2.7)3.5 1.5 cm diam. when furled,
6.5-12.5 cm wide when flattened, with dense minute
depressions scattered throughout the tube,
constricted portion of spathe (2)3.3-4.0 cm wide,
3.5-8 cm wide when flattened; spathe blade 3.7-
4.5 cm wide, flattening to 3.3-6.3 cm wide, spadix
(12)1>29.3 cm long, 2.0 1.7 cm shorter than the
spathe, scarcely protruded forward, its stipe 1-2 cm
long, 1.3 cm diam., the free portion of the spadix
9-11 cm long, pistillate portion (5.5)8.5-10 cm
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