Ormosia coccinea (Aubl.) Jacks.
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Authority
Rudd, Velva E. 1965. The American Species of Ormosia (Leguminosae). Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 32(5): 279-384.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Tree to about 30 m. high; young stems ferrugino- to fulvo-tomentulose, sometimes glabrescent; stipules minute, deltoid, 1-2 mm. long; leaves 7-11-foliolate, the axis 8-30 cm. long, tomentulose to subsericeous, the petiole 3-7 cm. long, the pairs of leaflets 2-7 cm. apart, the petiolules 3-10 mm. long, 2-4 mm. in diameter, the blades coriaceous, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 3-22 cm. long, 2-11 cm. broad, acute, breviacuminate, or obtuse, the base obtuse, the margin sometimes revolute, the upper surface glabrous, nitid or subnitid, the major veins sometimes deeply impressed, the lower surface usually tomentulose along the major veins, sometimes appressed-pubescent, or glabrate, otherwise sparsely pubescent with minute appressed hairs, or sometimes glabrate, the secondary veins usually conspicuously raised, about (8-) 10-17 pair, 4-25 mm. apart, forming angles of 50°-70° with the midvein; inflorescences with axes fulvo- to ferrugino-tomentulose, the bracts deltoid or linear-deltoid, 2-3.5 mm. long and about 1 mm. broad at the base, the bracteoles linear or linear-deltoid, 1-2 mm. long; flowers 10-15 mm. long; calyx fulvo- or ferrugino-tomentulose, 7-9 mm. long, the tube 4-4.5 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, the teeth 3-5 mm. long; corolla dark purplish; fruit dehiscent, lignous, black or dark brown, glabrous at maturity, nitid, usually 1-seeded, sometimes with 2-4 seeds, about 2.5-6 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, slightly constricted between the seeds, about 1 cm. thick, the valves 2-5 mm. thick; seeds bicolored, red and black, 10-15 mm. long, 9-12 mm. broad, and 7-10 mm. thick, the hilum elliptic, about 2 mm. long and 1 mm. wide.