Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. Flora Borinqueña.
Britton, Nathaniel L. Flora Borinqueña.
Family:
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Description:
Species Description - Carlo Guiseppe Bertero (1789-1831) commemorated by the specific botanical name of this small tree, was an Italian botanist and physician, who made large and important collections in the West Indies and Colombia from 1816 to 1821; he was in Porto Rico in 1819 and 1820. It is locally naturalized in Porto Rico , planted for fence-posts, and grows also in Cuba and Santo Domingo, and on the continent, in Colombia, where specimens were first collected by Bertero. Its Cuban popular name is Peñon; introduction into Porto Rico was made prior to 1901, in which year specimens were collected near Mayaguez. For an account of the genus Erythrina we refer to our description of Erythrina Corallodendrum. Erythrina Berteroana is a tree about 8 meters high, or lower, smooth throughout and unarmed. Its leaves are borne on slender stalks from 8 to 18 centimeters long, and have 3, broad, rather thin ovate or rhombic, pointed leaflets, from 5 to 14 centimeters long, paler green beneath than above. The flower-clusters are about 30 centimeters long, or shorter, the individual flowers on very short stalks; the tubular calyx is from 18 to 23 millimeters long, with an oblique limb. The coral-pink, narrow standard petal is from 6 to 8 centimeters long, and folded longitudinally; the wing-petals are about 1 centimeter long, about equalling the oblong keel petals; the stamens are shorter than the standard. The necklace-like pod is about 10 centimeters long, about 1 centimeter broad, over the seeds, with an awl-shaped beak from 2 to 4 centimeters long; the oblong, vermillion seeds are not spotted.
Species Description - Carlo Guiseppe Bertero (1789-1831) commemorated by the specific botanical name of this small tree, was an Italian botanist and physician, who made large and important collections in the West Indies and Colombia from 1816 to 1821; he was in Porto Rico in 1819 and 1820. It is locally naturalized in Porto Rico , planted for fence-posts, and grows also in Cuba and Santo Domingo, and on the continent, in Colombia, where specimens were first collected by Bertero. Its Cuban popular name is Peñon; introduction into Porto Rico was made prior to 1901, in which year specimens were collected near Mayaguez. For an account of the genus Erythrina we refer to our description of Erythrina Corallodendrum. Erythrina Berteroana is a tree about 8 meters high, or lower, smooth throughout and unarmed. Its leaves are borne on slender stalks from 8 to 18 centimeters long, and have 3, broad, rather thin ovate or rhombic, pointed leaflets, from 5 to 14 centimeters long, paler green beneath than above. The flower-clusters are about 30 centimeters long, or shorter, the individual flowers on very short stalks; the tubular calyx is from 18 to 23 millimeters long, with an oblique limb. The coral-pink, narrow standard petal is from 6 to 8 centimeters long, and folded longitudinally; the wing-petals are about 1 centimeter long, about equalling the oblong keel petals; the stamens are shorter than the standard. The necklace-like pod is about 10 centimeters long, about 1 centimeter broad, over the seeds, with an awl-shaped beak from 2 to 4 centimeters long; the oblong, vermillion seeds are not spotted.
Discussion:
Machete Bertero's Coral-tree Pea Family Erythrina Berteroana Urban, Symbolae Antillanae 5: 370. 1908.
Machete Bertero's Coral-tree Pea Family Erythrina Berteroana Urban, Symbolae Antillanae 5: 370. 1908.
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