Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Mimosaceae
Mimosaceae
Description:
Species Description - Usually a shrub 2-3 m. high, but sometimes a small tree, in Porto Rico becoming a tree 20 m. high, the young twigs puberulent. Leaves 1-2 dm. long; petiole 3-6 cm. long, with or without a gland; pinnae 3-10 pairs, the upper ones little shorter than the lower; leaflets 10 - 20 pairs to each pinna, oblong or lanceolate, thin, 8-15 mm. long, inequilateral, acute at the apex, obliquely narrowed at the base, light green above, pale beneath; heads globular, axillary or terminal, mostly clustered, 1.5-3 cm. in diameter; peduncles stout, puberulent or pubescent, 2-3 cm. long; calyx obconic, 1 mm. long, its short teeth blunt; petals linear-spatulate, pubescent; stamens about 3 times as long as the petals; ovary pubescent; pods several or numerous, linear, 10-15 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide, abruptly acute or mucronate, tapering at the base, the thin valves with raised margins.
Species Description - Usually a shrub 2-3 m. high, but sometimes a small tree, in Porto Rico becoming a tree 20 m. high, the young twigs puberulent. Leaves 1-2 dm. long; petiole 3-6 cm. long, with or without a gland; pinnae 3-10 pairs, the upper ones little shorter than the lower; leaflets 10 - 20 pairs to each pinna, oblong or lanceolate, thin, 8-15 mm. long, inequilateral, acute at the apex, obliquely narrowed at the base, light green above, pale beneath; heads globular, axillary or terminal, mostly clustered, 1.5-3 cm. in diameter; peduncles stout, puberulent or pubescent, 2-3 cm. long; calyx obconic, 1 mm. long, its short teeth blunt; petals linear-spatulate, pubescent; stamens about 3 times as long as the petals; ovary pubescent; pods several or numerous, linear, 10-15 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide, abruptly acute or mucronate, tapering at the base, the thin valves with raised margins.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America|