Chamaecrista lineata (Sw.) Greene

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Caesalpiniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chamaecrista lineata (Sw.) Greene

  • Description

    Species Description - A usually much-branched shrub, 3-10 dm. high, the twigs finely pubescent or glabrate. Leaflets 3-8 pairs, oblong, linear-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, coriaceous, 6-20 mm. long, 2-7 mm. wide, rounded and mucronulate at the apex, dull, rather strongly pinnately veined, glabrous or puberulent, the petiole 3-8 mm. long, bearing a sessile gland; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the petioles or shorter; flowers solitary in the axils, 2-3 cm. broad; petals obovate; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 7-10 mm. long; legume linear, pubescent, 2.5-6 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, short-beaked.

  • Discussion

    Scrub, palmetto, and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Watling's. North Caicos, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Anegada ; Jamaica. Reported by Hitchcock and by Mrs. Northrop as Cassia polyadena DC. and also referred to that species by Bentham ; reported by Dolley as Cassia Chamaecrista L.

  • Distribution

    Abaco and Great Bahama to Watling's. North Caicos, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Anegada ; Jamaica

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