Bauhinia rufescens Lam.

  • Authority

    Isley, Duane. 1975. Leguminosae of the United States: II. Subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25 (2): 1-228.

  • Family

    Caesalpiniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bauhinia rufescens Lam.

  • Description

    Species Description - Small, glabrate shrub or tree with branches spreading in one plane. Leaves simple, rounded, 1.5-2.5 cm, .7-.8 r, cleft 3/4 or torn to base and bifoliolate, glaucous. Flowers fragrant in short, intercalary racemes. Pedicels 1-2 mm; hypanthium 1-2 mm; calyx spathiform in bud, obovate or oblanceolate, subporrect, 6-8 mm; petals white to ochroleucous, oblanceolate, 10-14 mm; stamens 10, filaments proximally pubescent; ovary glabrous. Legume persistent, indehiscent, stipitate, oblong, curved to circinate; valves black, flat but expressed over seeds, to 8 cm long, 1.3 cm wide.

  • Discussion

    CN n = 14 (Sharma and Raju, 1968); 2n = 28 (Atchison, 1951).

  • Distribution

    S Florida. Novelty. Said to be all year. Africa.

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