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Diagnosis: Distinguished by its epiphytic habit with elongate internodes, distal branchlets moderately to sparingly covered with a mixture of smooth (sometimes gland-tipped) spreading trichomes (
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to form a tight collar enveloping the hypanthium, calyx tube 
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long, oblong-obovate calyx lobes, rhombic commonly reflexed petals with a basal claw, yellow-orange unappendaged anthers, and ovary apex elaborated into a distally glandular-laciniate collar 
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long that envelops the style base.
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Epiphytic shrub with elongate internodes. Distal branchlets rounded-quadrangular, moderately to sparingly covered with a mixture of smooth (sometimes gland-tipped) spreading trichomes (
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long. The distal branchlets with conspicuous, broadly U-shaped leaf scars at the somewhat swollen internodes. Internodes of the older branches ± terete and essentially glabrous, the nodes swollen but nodal lines not evident. Mature leaves of a pair equal to somewhat unequal in size, the adaxial surfaces with an indumentum like that of distal branchlets; petioles 
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long, ± flattened adaxially, moderately to copiously covered with an indumentum like that of the distal branches and vegetative buds; blades 4.5–12.6 × 
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, ovate to elliptic-ovate, apex acute to obtuse varying to bluntly attenuate or short-acuminate, base rounded to truncate or subcordate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, 5–7-nerved or 5–7-plinerved (the outermost pair often inconspicuous) with the innermost pair of secondary veins symmetrically diverging from the primary vein at the blade base or 
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above the base, abaxial surface uniformly beset with erect to antrorsely spreading smooth trichomes 
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apart at the widest portion of the blade; domatia absent. Flowers erect, solitary in the uppermost leaf axils, subsessile or with terete peduncles 
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to form a tight collar enveloping the hypanthium, the free lobes 8–9 × 
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in diameter distally at the torus, campanulate, light green, glabrous, and largely concealed by the inner bracts; inner torus summit glabrous. Calyx tube 
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long, light green; calyx lobes erect, commonly recurved distally, ca. 
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wide basally between the sinuses, oblong-obovate, light green, distal adaxial surface and distal margins beset with smooth gland-tipped spreading trichomes 
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long that are white when fresh but dull yellow-brown when dry, abaxial surface sparsely covered with brown conic or laterally compressed trichomes like those of the floral bracts. Petals 6, 11–16 × 
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, ± rhombic with a basal claw, commonly reflexed, pink-lilac but whitish toward the base adaxially, apex acute with a single deciduous trichome (sometimes gland-tipped), otherwise glabrous and entire but distinctly verrucose when dry. Stamens 12, isomorphic; filaments 
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long, complanate, white, glabrous, somewhat declined to one side of the flower opposing the style; anthers 4–5.5 × 
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, oblong (ventral view) and ovoid-oblong (profile view), orange distally and ± yellow-orange proximally, laterally compressed and free for their entire length, each anther bearing two minute ± truncate pores at the bluntly rounded summit; connective somewhat thickened dorsally but unappendaged. Ovary completely inferior, 6-locular, ± conic apically and elaborated into a smooth, erect, distally glandular-laciniate collar 
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long that envelops the base of the style. Style 10–15 × 
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, yellow-white, somewhat declinate and slightly curved distally, glabrous; stigma light green, somewhat expanded. Mature berries and seeds not seen.
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF1FFA2E9C7F870218450E2" bold="true" box="[136,255,1953,1974]" pageId="2" pageNumber="106">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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.
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A. Habit. B. Representative leaf (abaxial surface) C. Distal portion of peduncle and outer floral bracts. D. Inner floral bracts. E. Hypanthium and calyx lobes. F. Longitudinal section of flower showing ovary, collar, and calyx lobes. G. Flower at anthesis. H. Stamens, ventral view (left) and profile view (right). I. Petal (adaxial surface). All drawn from De Gracia 765.
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E9C7FCAE218754C0" bold="true" box="[136,252,895,916]" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Images of 
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.
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A. Flower. B. Habit. C. Flowers and subtending leaves. D. Hypanthia and subtending floral bracts. E. Flower showing reflexed petals (right) and flower at post anthesis (left). F. Young fruiting hypanthia with spreading calyx lobes and subtending floral bracts. Image credits: A–F (
<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3EB72FC1623B65488" box="[573,717,967,988]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">De Gracia 763</emphasis>
) by J. E. De Gracia.
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E9F2F9F820425116" bold="true" box="[189,313,1577,1602]" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">Phenology</emphasis>
:—The type and one of the 
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, both of which were collected in July, are in flower; no fruiting material has been collected to date.
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E9F2F9A0209251DE" bold="true" box="[189,489,1649,1674]" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">Habitat and distribution</emphasis>
:—This species has been collected in mature secondary rainforest in the Caribbean lowlands of 
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at 
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elevation where it is known from a small area in the Donoso District of 
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E9F2F90C20D651A2" bold="true" box="[189,429,1757,1782]" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">Conservation status</emphasis>
:— 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E89EF90C23F251A2" box="[465,649,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">Blakea echinata</emphasis>
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is known from a limited area in lowland rainforest on the Caribbean versant of 
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. The EOO is 
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² and the AOO is 
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². The only known population of this species is within the Concesión del Proyecto 
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, a large-scale open-pit copper mine development project in 
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. The concession consists of four zones totaling 13,600 hectares (https://www.first-quantum.com). However, we have no exact information on the occurrence of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3EB05F8BC23B150D2" box="[586,714,1901,1926]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">B. echinata</emphasis>
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within these four concession zones. In view of its limited range, small population size, epiphytic habit, and potential threat of habitat degradation or destruction from the mining concession we recommend a classification of Critically Endangered (CR): B1ac(ii) + B2ac(ii).
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF0FFA3E9F2F808204550A6" bold="true" box="[189,318,2009,2034]" pageId="3" pageNumber="107">Etymology</emphasis>
:—The epithet for this species, 
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,
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highlights the copious and conspicuous indumentum of stiff smooth and/or gland-tipped spreading trichomes on leaves, petioles, floral bracts, and calyx lobes.
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E9C7FBC82185537A" bold="true" box="[136,254,1049,1070]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Geographic distribution of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E9F2FB8F234D5323" bold="true" box="[189,566,1118,1143]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Additional specimens examined</emphasis>
:— 
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, sterile, 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E9F2FAC32040527F" bold="true" box="[189,315,1298,1323]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Discussion</emphasis>
:— 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E810FAC3236F527F" box="[351,532,1298,1323]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea echinata</emphasis>
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can be placed in the “fused bract clade” (
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) on the basis of its fused inner and outer floral bracts, roughened conic trichomes on the outer floral bracts, and apico-laterally narrowed ovary locules. 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E87CFA8B20905227" box="[307,491,1370,1395]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea echinata</emphasis>
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does not appear to be particularly close to any of the described species of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EC11FA8B24D75227" box="[1374,1452,1370,1395]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea</emphasis>
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included in regional accounts of the genus for tropical America (
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; 
<bibRefCitation id="FB184B59FFF7FFA4ED65FAAF25AF52C3" author="Wurdack, J. J." box="[1066,1236,1406,1431]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" refId="ref4130" refString="Wurdack, J. J. (1973) Melastomataceae. In: Lasser, T. (Ed.) Flora de Venezuela. Vol. 8. Instituto Botanico, Caracas, Venezuela, 819 pp." type="book" year="1973">Wurdack 1973</bibRefCitation>
, 
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; 
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Wurdack 
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1993
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; 
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). It is also unlike any of the recently described species of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4ED60FA73250652EF" box="[1071,1149,1442,1467]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea</emphasis>
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from 
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(Almeda 2013), 
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(
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), 
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(
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; 
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; 
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Fernández 
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2016
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), and 
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(
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). In the most recent keys to species of 
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and Central America (
<bibRefCitation id="FB184B59FFF7FFA4E802F9DF20925173" author="Almeda, F." box="[333,489,1550,1575]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" pagination="299 - 319" refId="ref3228" refString="Almeda, F. (2000) A synopsis of the genus Blakea (Melastomataceae) in Mexico and Central America. Novon 10: 299 - 319. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3392974" type="journal article" year="2000">Almeda 2000</bibRefCitation>
, 
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) it comes closest to the Costa Rican endemic 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4ED68F9DF25BC5173" box="[1063,1223,1550,1575]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. grandiflora</emphasis>
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based on similarities in the connation of inner and outer floral bracts and floral peduncle length. The latter is a variable species that can be an epiphytic shrub or small tree. Some populations of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EA9FF9872509513B" box="[976,1138,1622,1647]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. grandiflora</emphasis>
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are glabrous whereas other have vegetative buds, distal branchlets, peduncles, and immature outer floral bracts that are moderately to sparsely covered with dendritic, pinoid, and/or scurfy trichomes. 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EA43F94F229851E3" box="[780,995,1694,1719]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea grandiflora</emphasis>
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differs consistently from 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EC44F94F24F751E3" box="[1291,1420,1694,1719]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. echinata</emphasis>
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in the nature of the indumentum as noted above, in its glabrous calyx lobes and adaxial foliar surfaces, larger (2.8–3.8 × 
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) white petals flushed with pink, yellow anthers with apical pores positioned toward the ventral face, and anther connectives that are dilated dorso-basally ca. 
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above the filament insertion into a blunt appendage. The ovary apex of 
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also differs in being bluntly conic and lacks a collar surrounding the base of the style. The laterally compressed roughened conic or clavate trichomes and verrucose or tuberculate petals of 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4ED81F8832435503F" box="[1230,1358,1874,1899]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. echinata</emphasis>
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are also found in 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E9BFF8A7201750DB" box="[240,364,1910,1935]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. elliptica</emphasis>
(
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) 
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, 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EA17F8A722A150DB" box="[856,986,1910,1935]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. calycosa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="FB184B59FFF7FFA4EAADF8A725B650DB" author="Gleason, H. A." box="[994,1229,1910,1935]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" pagination="340 - 343" refId="ref3702" refString="Gleason, H. A. (1939) Four Central American melastomes. Phytologia 1: 340 - 343. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 19005" type="journal article" year="1939">Gleason (1939: 342)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4EC44F8A724D050DB" box="[1291,1451,1910,1935]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. tuberculata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="FB184B59FFF7FFA4E9C7F84B20C850E7" author="Donnell Smith, J." box="[136,435,1946,1971]" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" pagination="109 - 125" refId="ref3613" refString="Donnell Smith, J. (1901) Undescribed plants from Guatemala and other Central American republics XXII. Botanical Gazette 31: 109 - 125. https: // doi. org / 10.1086 / 328081" type="journal article" year="1901">Donnell Smith (1901: 111)</bibRefCitation>
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but all of these species otherwise differ markedly from 
<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4ED6FF84B242650E7" box="[1056,1373,1946,1971]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">
<taxonomicName id="58894D2BFFF7FFA4ED6FF84B25D950E7" authorityName="Almeda &amp; Penneys" authorityYear="2018" box="[1056,1186,1946,1971]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Blakea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="echinata">B. echinata</taxonomicName>
. 
<taxonomicName id="58894D2BFFF7FFA4EDE3F84B242650E7" authorityName="Almeda" authorityYear="1984" baseAuthorityName="Gleason" baseAuthorityYear="1950" box="[1196,1373,1946,1971]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Blakea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="elliptica">Blakea elliptica</taxonomicName>
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differs most notably by its sessile leaves that are auriculate to cordate-clasping at the base, triangular calyx lobes, white petals flushed with pink, and deflexed dorso-basal truncate anther appendages 
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long. 
<taxonomicName id="58894D2BFFF7FFA4ED8CF833240050AF" authorityName="Gleason" authorityYear="1939" box="[1219,1403,2018,2043]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Melastomataceae" genus="Blakea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="4" pageNumber="108" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="calycosa">
<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4ED8CF833240050AF" box="[1219,1403,2018,2043]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">Blakea calycosa</emphasis>
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and 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF7FFA4E9C7F7D720515F4B" box="[136,298,2054,2079]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="108">B. tuberculata</emphasis>
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collectively differ by their caudate to caudate-acuminate leaf apices, calyx lobes that are elaborated into deflexed foliaceous appendages on the distal abaxial surfaces, yellow anther thecae that form a complete circle around the straight glandular-puberulent style at anthesis, and anther connectives that are prolonged dorso-basally into acute spurs 
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long. 
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<emphasis id="ADFDEABAFFF6FFA5E882FF3923F85655" box="[461,643,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="109">Blakea echinata</emphasis>
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has an ovary collar that is similar to, but much shorter than, that of 
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.
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