Pithecellobium guadalupense Chapm.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A usually unarmed shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 m. high with a trunk up to 1.5 dm. in diameter, the bark gray, slightly fissured, the twigs and leaves glabrous. Petioles 2-3 cm. long, bearing a round gland at the summit; pinnae 2. stalked, each bearing a single pair (rarely 2 pairs) of sessile leaflets, which are obliquely obovate or nearly orbicular, firm in texture, 3-7 cm. long, rounded or notched at the apex, or rarely short-pointed, the margins somewhat revolute; peduncles slender, glabrous, as long as the leaves or shorter, sometimes panicled; flowering heads 2-3 cm. in diameter; calyx about 1.5 mm. long, 5-toothed; corolla about 3 mm. long; stamens pink, about 3 times as long as the corolla; ovary pubescent; pod coiled or much curved, brown, 6-15 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad; seeds black, shining.
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Distribution
Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Andros to Mariguana, Caicos, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles: Florida; Cuba. Black-bead. Ram's-hobn.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America|