Chloroleucon mangense (Jacq.) Britton & Rose var. mangense
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Authors
Rupert C. Barneby
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Authority
Barneby, Rupert C. & Grimes, James W. 1996. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-292.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
"In insulis Caribaeis vicinaque Americes continenti.", elaborated in Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 2(qu): 267. 1763 & ibid. (fol) t. 262, fig. 70. 1781. — "Habitat Carthagenae, frequens in insula Mango [= Isla Manga, today a suburb of the city of Cartagena,
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Synonyms
Mimosa mangensis Jacq., , , , Enterolobium mangense (Jacq.) Fawc. & Rendle, , , Acacia parvifolia (Sw.) Willd., , , , Pithecellobium marthae (Britton & Killip) Niezgoda & Nevling
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Description
Variety Description - Lf-formula iv-ix/14-25(29); lfts linear from obtusangulate base, deltately acute, the larger ones (3.5)5- 8 x 1-1.8 mm, (3.1)3.5-5 times as long as wide. Pods almost straight to falcately recurved, when well fertilized 9-13 x (1-)1.1-1.5 cm, the sutures not or scarcely constricted, the valves coherent between seeds but not produced inwardly as septa. [Key] "Lfts at once numerous and narrow, the lf-formula iv-ix/14-25(-28), the longer lfts (disregarding the terminal pair) 3.5-8 X 1-1.8(-2) mm, not incurved at apex; pod relatively short and broad, 9-13 X (1-) 1.1-1.5 cm;"
Distribution and Ecology - In thickets and disturbed matorral, sometimes surviving in hedges, below 150 m, locally frequent around Lago Maracaibo in NW Venezuela (Zulia), in the Caribbean lowlands of N Colombia (Magdalena, Atlántico, Bolívar), and in central Panama, and known from single collections in Pacific Honduras, from Chiapas, Mexico (Arriaga), and in coastal SW Ecuador; disjunct in SE Jamaica, where perhaps an introduction of long standing. — Map 41. — Fl. (X-XI) II-V. [Key] "Caribbean N Colombia, centr. Panama, and NW Venezuela (Maracaibo basin), disjunct on Pacific coast of Honduras (Bahía de S. Lorenzo), Chiapas, Mexico (Arriaga), and on E Jamaica (vicinity of Kingston)..........10a. var. mangense"
Local Names and Uses - Caudero, quebrahacha (Venezuela); carbonero, hoyo de zorra, vainillo (Colombia).
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Discussion
In the protologue, Jacquin ascribed to Mimosa mangensis a leaf-formula of v/16, but in 1791 illustrated it by a leaf showing only 12 pairs of leaflets. Swartz at first identified his Jamaican plant with Jacquin’s, but was dissuaded by an apparent disparity in leaflet- number, redescribing the species as M. parvifolia. Modern material from the western Caribbean and from Jamaica shows almost the same range of variation in leaf-formula and confirms Bentham’s conclusion that these two names apply to one taxon.
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Common Names
Caudero, quebrahacha, carbonero, hoyo de zorra, vainillo
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Distribution
Zulia Venezuela South America| Magdalena Colombia South America| Atlántico Colombia South America| Bolívar Colombia South America| Panama Central America| Honduras Central America| Chiapas Mexico North America| Ecuador South America| Jamaica South America|