Anneslia
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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
Description - Shrubs, or small trees, with bipinnate leaves and capitate flowers, the heads peduncled, axillary, or in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Corolla funnelform or campanluate, 5-lobed, the petals being united to the middle or above the middle. Stamens numerous; filaments united below, long-ex serted; anthers small, glandular-hirsute or glabrous, the pollen grains agglomerate. Ovary many-ovuled; style filiform. Pod linear, usually narrowed below the middle, flat, not pulpy within, straight or nearly so, elastically dehiscent from the base, the valves stiff with raised margins. Seeds obovate 'or orbicular, compressed. [In honor of George Annesley, 1769-1844, English traveler and botanist.] Over 100 species, of tropical and subtropical distribution. Type species: Anneslia falcifolia Salisb.