Cojoba arborea (L.) Britton & Rose var. arborea

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    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. , , and . Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-149.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cojoba arborea (L.) Britton & Rose var. arborea

  • Type

    "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,

  • Synonyms

    Mimosa filicifolia Lam., Cojoba guatemalensis Britton & Rose, Feuilleea filicifolia (Lam.) Kuntze, Cojoba tonduzii Britton & Rose, Cojoba tuerckheimii Britton & Rose, Pithecolobium matudai Lundell, Pithecellobium arboreum var. filifolia Kitan.

  • Description

    Variety Description - 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.

    Distribution and Ecology - 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.

  • Common Names

    wild tamarind, sabicu, barba de jolote, camaronero, cola de mico, cola marana, coralillo, frijolillo, collier , cojoba, cojobana, dormilón, sirarcillo

  • Distribution

    Veracruz Mexico North America| San Luis Potosí Mexico North America| Tabasco Mexico North America| Oaxaca Mexico North America| Chiapas Mexico North America| Oriente Cuba South America| Sud-Est Haiti South America| Chocó Colombia South America| Huánuco Peru South America| West Indies|