Swartzia macrostachya Benth.
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Authority
Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae Swartzieae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 1: 3-228. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Subscandent shrub or tree, the branchlets tomentose or tomentulose, sometimes early glabrescent; stipules caducous, minute, to 9 mm long, ca 2.5 mm wide, triangular to elliptic-oblong, acute; petioles 2-4.5 cm long, marginate, strigulose to tomentulose, or glabrous, stipellate apically; rachis 7-20.5 cm long, marginate to narrowly alate, stipellate at each pair of leaflets, strigulose to tomentulose, or glabrous; leaflets with blades 5-12 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide; inflorescences ramuligerous to ramigerous, racemose to panicled-racemose, the axis tomentulose to tomentose, the bracteoles developed; pedicels 3.5-12 mm long, tomentulose to tomentose or strigulose; buds tomentulose to strigulose; calyx segments glabrous on the inner surface; petal white, the claw 3-4 mm long, the blade oblate and usually cordate basally, ca 9-10 mm long, 14-18 mm wide, more or less villose-sericeous externally and sometimes also on the inner surface; larger stamens with anthers 2.5-3 mm long, oblong, the connective glabrous or villosulose, the smaller stamens glabrous; gynoecium sericeous, the gynophore 3-9 mm long.
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Distribution
(Fig. 18). Forests of Baía , Minas Gerais, and western Matto Grosso, Brazil.
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