Flowers : gynodioecious or subdioecious. flowers erect and numerous in terminal, di- to trichotomously branched panicles, 10 to 14 cm long, 9 to 12 cm wide, narrowed towards the apex. perfect flowers, pedicels slender, 8 to 12 mm long, floral tube cylindric to subobconic, 4 to 8 mm long, 1 to 2 mm wide at base, 1.5 to 3 mm wide at the rim, often pilose within, sepals lanceolate, 5 to 10 mm long, 1.1 to 2.5 mm wide, spreading to reflexed at anthesis, tube and sepals rose-purple, petals lavender, lanceolate to elliptic, 4 to 10 mm long, 1.1 to 3.5 mm wide, acute at both ends, erect to spreading, nectary smooth to irregularly lobed ring 1.3 to 2 mm high adnate to the base of the tube, antisepalous filaments 4 to 13 mm long, antipetalous ones 2 to 11 mm long, pink, anthers broadly ovoid to reniform, 0.8 to 1.6 (to 2) mm long, 0.7 to1.4 mm thick, style sparsely pilose, either exserted beyond anthers with a shortly quadrilobed stigma or included below the anthers and the stigma strongly reduced, lavender. pistillate flowers, similar to the perfect ones except in the following characters, floral tube smaller, 3 to 5.5 mm long, 0.7 to 1.7 mm wide at base, 1.5 to 2.2 mm wide at rim, sepals 3.5 to 7 mm long, 0.7 to 1.3 mm wide, petals 2.3 to 4.5 mm long, 0.6- to .3 mm wide, nectary 0.8 to 1.4 mm high, antisepalous filaments 1.5 to 4.9 mm long, antipetalous ones 1.0 to 3.9 mm long, anthers abortive, 0.4 to 0.8 mm long, 0.2 to 0.6 mm thick, style stout, to 11 mm long, the.stigma well exserted above the stamens, quadri-lobed, lobes 0.6 to 1.9 mm long.
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Fruit : subglobose, 4-9mm long x 4-7mm wide, purple with a glaucous, waxy bloom
Seed : 1-1.4mm long x 0.5-0.8mm wide
Habit : erect woody shrubs or small trees, usually glabrous
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Height : 3-8 m
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Remarks : F. panuculata subsp. paniculata flowers throughout the year
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Year (of first description) : 1856
Botanist : Lindley
Authors : Berry & Breedlove 1996
Original publication : Gard. Chron. 1856: 301 1856
Habitat : moist oak-pine and evergreen cloud forest from Veracruz, Mexico south to central Panama and, north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, it occurs only on the wet Caribbean facing-slopes in Puebla, Veracruz, and Oaxaca States
Elevation : 800-3000
Native country : Mexico to Costa Rica
Synonyms : F. paniculata Lindl., F. liebmannii H. Lév., F. arborea Sessé & Moc., F. hamellioides Moc. & Sesse ex G. Don, F. syringiflora (Lem.) Carrière, Schufia arborescens (Sims) Spach, F. arborescens fo. parva Munz, F. arborescens fo. tenuis Munz, F. arborescens var. megalantha Donn. Sm., F. arborescens var. syringiflora Lem.
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : opposite or 3-4-verticillate, subcoriaceous, petiole 8-26 mm long, stipules triangular, often connate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, deciduous
Foliage color upper side : deep lustrous green
Foliage color lower side : paler green
Leaf dimensions : 5-15.5cm long x 2-5.5cm wide
Leaf shape : elliptic to oblanceolate
Leaf margin : minutely to coarsely serrate
Leaf tip : acute to acuminate
Leaf base : acute to narrowly cuneate
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Branches : ranchlets ascending, 10 to 40 cm long, to 5 m thick, subtriangular to quadrangular, older branches and main trunk 2 to 15 cm thick
