Monographs Details:
Authority:
Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae Swartzieae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 1: 3-228. (Published by NYBG Press)
Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae Swartzieae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 1: 3-228. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Description:
Description - Small tree or shrub, the branchlets densely pilose, pilosulose, or strigulose; stipules usually persistent, linear-lanceolate, strigulose, pilosulose, or glabrous; petioles marginate to alate, the wing 2-3 mm wide at the apex; rachis alate to narrowly margined, the wing to 3 mm wide, stipellate at the pairs of leaflets; leaflets 2-4-jugate, rarely unijugate, the petiolules 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous, pilosulose, or strigulose, the blades of the lowermost pair 20-60 mm long and 10-30 mm wide, those of the upper pairs 35-75 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, the terminal leaflet 50-115 mm long, 20-55 mm wide, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, infrequently obovate, the base acute to rounded-obtuse, the apex acuminate, the tip obtuse or, more often, retuse, sometimes mucronulate, the blades glabrous, or variously pubescent beneath, the venation prominulous, the costa salient, the primary veins plane; inflorescences axillary, 3-9 cm long, the axis sparingly strigulose to pilosulose, the bracts 1-1.5 mm long, densely strigulose or pilosulose, the bracteoles 0.7-1.5(-3.5) mm long, linear-lanceolate; pedicels 7-30 mm long, pilosulose, strigulose, or glabrous; buds globose, 7-10 mm diameter; calyx segments glabrous, deciduous; petal yellow, glabrous, the claw 1.5-3.5 mm long, the blade oblate and more or less cordate basally, 14-22 mm long, 16-35 mm wide; larger stamens 8-15, glabrous, the filaments 14-23 mm long, the anthers 2-3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, oblong, the smaller stamens glabrous, the filaments 8-15 mm long, the anthers broadly oblong, 1-1.5 mm long; gynoecium glabrous, strigulose, or puberulous, at least basally, the style 5-8 mm long, the ovary linear, 7-10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, the gynophore 7-16.5 mm long; fruit glabrous or puberulous or strigulose, 3-5.5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm diameter, oblong-elliptic or oval in outline, the stipe 15-20 mm long, strigulose, pilosulose, or glabrous.
Description - Small tree or shrub, the branchlets densely pilose, pilosulose, or strigulose; stipules usually persistent, linear-lanceolate, strigulose, pilosulose, or glabrous; petioles marginate to alate, the wing 2-3 mm wide at the apex; rachis alate to narrowly margined, the wing to 3 mm wide, stipellate at the pairs of leaflets; leaflets 2-4-jugate, rarely unijugate, the petiolules 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous, pilosulose, or strigulose, the blades of the lowermost pair 20-60 mm long and 10-30 mm wide, those of the upper pairs 35-75 mm long, 15-35 mm wide, the terminal leaflet 50-115 mm long, 20-55 mm wide, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, infrequently obovate, the base acute to rounded-obtuse, the apex acuminate, the tip obtuse or, more often, retuse, sometimes mucronulate, the blades glabrous, or variously pubescent beneath, the venation prominulous, the costa salient, the primary veins plane; inflorescences axillary, 3-9 cm long, the axis sparingly strigulose to pilosulose, the bracts 1-1.5 mm long, densely strigulose or pilosulose, the bracteoles 0.7-1.5(-3.5) mm long, linear-lanceolate; pedicels 7-30 mm long, pilosulose, strigulose, or glabrous; buds globose, 7-10 mm diameter; calyx segments glabrous, deciduous; petal yellow, glabrous, the claw 1.5-3.5 mm long, the blade oblate and more or less cordate basally, 14-22 mm long, 16-35 mm wide; larger stamens 8-15, glabrous, the filaments 14-23 mm long, the anthers 2-3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, oblong, the smaller stamens glabrous, the filaments 8-15 mm long, the anthers broadly oblong, 1-1.5 mm long; gynoecium glabrous, strigulose, or puberulous, at least basally, the style 5-8 mm long, the ovary linear, 7-10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, the gynophore 7-16.5 mm long; fruit glabrous or puberulous or strigulose, 3-5.5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm diameter, oblong-elliptic or oval in outline, the stipe 15-20 mm long, strigulose, pilosulose, or glabrous.
Distribution:
Guatemala Central America| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Peru South America| Brazil South America|
Guatemala Central America| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Peru South America| Brazil South America|