Acacia choriophylla Benth.
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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 - An unarmed tree, up to 8 or 9 m. high, the twigs and leaves glabrous. Stipules minute, subulate; petioles rather stout, 8-15 mm. long, glandular; leaves 1-2 dm. long; pinnae 1-3 pairs, short-stalked; leaflets 3-7 pairs, sessile, oblong to obovate, subcoriaceous, 1.5-3 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, mostly obtuse at the base; peduncles mostly clustered in the axils, slender, glabrous, often numerous, 2-3.5 cm. long; flowers yellow, in dense globose heads 6-8 mm. in diameter, the corolla puberulent; stamens about twice as long as the corolla; pod stipitate, woody, oblong, straight or somewhat curved, compressed, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, about 8 mm. thick, short-pointed, glabrous, tardily dehiscent.
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Distribution
Coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Mariguana and Inagua : Cays of northern Cuba. Recorded by Hitchcock as Pithecolobium asplenifolium Griseb. Cinnecoed.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Cuba South America|