iNaturalist Plant Observations - Panama (iNaturalist:Plants-Panama)
Byttneria aculeata (Jacq.) Jacq.
Malvaceae
terit
2018-02-06
Panama, Colón, Colón, Camino del Oleoducto, Panama
9.1290127 -79.7154929 +-210m.
Thomas B. Croat reports that the blades of Byttneria aculeata are "variable, usually lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, obtuse to rounded, truncate, or subcordate, usually 4-11 cm long and 1.5-4.5 cm wide (juveniles to 19 cm long), entire to remotely serrate, glabrous or sparsely short-pilose above, often blotched with silver." See Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), "Byttneria aculeata" (http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/biodiversity/species/26851/). The Spanish Wikipedia entry for Byttneria aculeata notes that its "leaves [are] ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, broadly ovate, rarely hastate" ("Hojas ovalado-lanceoladas, lanceoladas, anchamente ovadas, raramente hastadas"). See: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byttneria_aculeata. iNaturalist observation of a specimen in Mazatlán, Sin., México, in October 2017, showing blotches: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8689479 Specimen collected in Tapuca, Mexico, in 1934, showing blotches: http://hasbrouck.asu.edu/imglib/seinet/DES/DES00005/DES00005212.jpg Specimen collected in Costa Rica in 1953, showing blotches: http://midwestherbaria.org/imglib/midwest/IND/IND-0079/IND-0079811_1492261908_web.jpg