Cojoba arborea var. arborea
Rupert C. Barneby
2a. Cojoba arborea (Linnaeus) Britton & Rose var. arborea. C. arborea Britton & Rose, 1928, l.c.., sens. str. (exclus. syn. jacquin. Lysilomati pertinenti). Mimosa arborea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 519. 1753. — "Habitat in Jamaicae & Caribaearum humidis." — Based on Acacia jamaicensis non spinosa etc. Plukenet, Phytographia 251, fig. 2. 1691 and A. arborea maxima non spinosa etc. Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 2: 54, t. 182, figs. 1, 2. 1725. Lectotypus, Sloane’s t. 182, just cited. — Non M. arborea sensu Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1503. 1762, quae (quoad descriptionem et specimen Browneanum in hb. Linn.) = Acacia villosa Willdenow. — Acacia arborea (L.) Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4(2): 1064. 1806. — Pithecolobium arboreum (L.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 259. 1900. — Samanea arborea Ricker in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 6: 3066. 1917.
(?)Mimosa filicifolia Lamarck, Encycl. 1:13. 1783. — ". . . en Amerique." — Based on sterile material, doubtfully ("par presomption") equated by Lamarck himself with M. (= Anadenanthera) peregrina Linnaeus. The name was adapted (with misgiving, and following Grisebach) by Bentham to this species. — Pithecolobium filicifolium (Lamarck) Bentham, London J. Bot. 3: 205. 1844. — Feuilleea filicifolia (Lamarck) O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 187. 1891.
Cojoba guatemalensis Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 30. 1928. — "Volcan de Acatenango, Guatemala, John Donnell Smith 2831". — Holotypus, US 942459!, isotypus (fragm.), NY!. — Pithecolobium vulcanorum Standley & Steyennark, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 23: 164. 1944.
C. tonduzii Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 30. 1928. — "Volcan de Pacaya, Guatemala, April 7, 1921, Tonduz 450."— Holotypus, US 1080064!, isotypus (fragm.), NY!. Pithecolobium tonduzii (Britton & Rose) Standley, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4: 308. 1929.
C. tuerckheimii Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23: 30. 1928. — "Coban, Guatemala, May, 1907, Tuerckheim II, 1769." — Holotypus, US 942460!, isotypus, US 9422462!. — Pithecolobium tuerckheimii (Britton & Rose) Standley & Steyermark, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 23: 164. 1944. Cojoba colombiana Britton & Killip, Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 35: 127. 1936. — "Vicinity of Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia, 1927, R. A. Toro 241." — Holotypus, NY (2 sheets)!.
Pithecolobium matudai Lundell, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 19: 429. 1938. — "Eizi Matuda 1835, collected on Mt. Ovando, near Escuintla, Chiapas, Mexico, April 9-12, 1937." — Holotypus, MICH!; isotypi, MO 1157515!, NY!. — Cojoba matudai (Lundell) L. Rico, Kew Bull. 46: 511. 1991. Pithecolobium austrinum Standley & Williams, Ceiba 3: 114. 1952. — "Costa Rica; Prov. Puntarenas: vicinity of Palmar Norte de Osa, . . . Mar 15, 1950, Paul H. Allen 5468." — Holotypus, PMA, n.v.; isotypus, US 2215873, seen in photo. — Cojoba austrina (Standley & Williams) L. Rico, Kew Bull. 46: 507. 1991.
Pithecellobium arboreum var. filifolia [sic]B. Kitanov, Ann. Univ. Sofia, Fac. Biol. 66(2): 31. 1974. — "[Cuba.] Prov. de Oriente: Sierra de Magei. Pinares, entre Cayo Fortuno y Cupeal, 20.iv.1970." — No collector or place of deposit given, presumably Kitanov s.n. Description and provenance compatible only with C. arborea var. arborea. Pithecolobium filicifolium sensu Grisebach, 1860:266; Bentham, 1875: 589.
P. arboreum sensu Fawcett & Rendle, 1920: 148 (anterior bibliography). Pithecollobium arboreum sensu Standley, 1922: 395; Standley & Steyermark, 1946: 70. Pithecellobium arboreum sensu Little & Wadsworth, Common Trees Puerto Rico and Virgin Is. 160 (many vernacular names), t. 67. 1964; Adams, 1972: 333; Bisse, 1988: 222, pro parte; Zamora, 1991: 129.
P. sophorocarpum sensu Macbride, 1943: 62, non Bentham.
Trees attaining 35 or rarely 60 m with trunk to 1 m dbh; lvs relatively ample, the lf-stk of larger ones (9-) 10-28 cm; lf-formula and relatively large seeds as given in key to varieties.
In perennially moist forest, or along streams in seasonally dry forest, both in the lowlands and at submontane elevations (in the coffee belt), widespread in SE Mexico, Central America, some Greater Antilles, and in remote stations in NW South America: in Mexico from the Gulf Coastal Plain and E slope of Sa. Madre Oriental in N Veracruz and extreme SE S. Luis Potosí to Tabasco, Sa Madre del Sur in Oaxaca, and montane Chiapas, thence into lowland Belize and SE, at ±1300-2300 m in Guatemala, at 1740 m in El Salvador, to below 100 m on Península de Osa in Costa Rica; in the Antilles common in forested upland Jamaica and Puerto Rico, with outposts on Cuba (S Oriente) and Haiti (Sud-Ouest); in South America known from N Colombia (coast of Chocó; vicinity of Medellín, Antioquia, at ±1500 m, possibly only planted); N Pacific Ecuador, seemingly native; and headwaters of Río Huallaga, at 800 m in Huánuco, Peru, questionably native. — Map 14. — Fl. prolifically in North America III—VIII and randomly at other times. — Wild tamarind (Jamaica, Belize), and in form of lumber sabicu (better reserved for Lysiloma); barba de jolote, camaronero, cola de mico, cola marana, coralillo, frijolillo (Mexico, Central America); collier (Haiti); cojoba, cojobana (Puerto Rico); dormilón (Ecuador); sirarcillo (Peru).
References: [Article] Barneby, Rupert C. & Grimes, James W. 1997. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part II.