Senna papillosa var. papillosa

  • Title

    Senna papillosa var. papillosa

  • Authors

    Howard S. Irwin, Rupert C. Barneby

  • Scientific Name

    Senna papillosa (Britton & Rose) H.S.Irwin & Barneby var. papillosa

  • Description

    13a. Senna papillosa (Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby var. papillosa. Chamaefistula papillosa Britton & Rose, 1930, l.c., sens. str. Type from near Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, altitude 300 meters, June 12, 1895, E. W. Nelson 2667. "—Holotypus, US! clastotypus (fragm) + photo, NY!—Cassia papillosa (Britton & Rose) Standley, Tropical Woods 34: 40. 1933.

    Chamaefistula rowleeana Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(4): 234. 1930.— Banameto [=Bananito, prov. Limon], Costa Rica, May 1918, W. W. Rowlee & H. E. Rowlee 285. —Holotypus, NY! isotypus, US!—Cassia rowleeana (Britton & Rose) Standley, Field Mus., Bot. 18 (Fl. Costa Rica pt. 2): 517 ("Rowleana"). 1937.

    Chamaefistula nicaraguensis Britton ex Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(4): 236. 1930.—"Nicaragua, Aug. 24, 1928, F. C. Englesing 294. Holotypus, NY! isotypus, K!—Non Cassia nicaraguensis Bentham, 1871.

    Chamaefistula fiuviatilis Britton & Killip, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 35: 172. 1936.—". . . vicinity of Puerto Wilches, Santander, Colombia, 100 m. altitude, November 28, 1926, Killip & Smith 14782 . . ."—Holotypus, NY! isotypus, US!

    Chamaefistula curranii Rose ex Britton & Killip, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 35: 174. 1936.—"Vicinity of Estrella, Cano Papayal, Lands of Loba, Bolivar, Colombia, April-May, 1916, H. M. Curran 348."—Holotypus, US! clastotypus + photo, NY!Relatively large-fld (as given in key); pedicels of most fertile fls ±2-4 cm.— Collections: 147.

    Openings and margins of primary and second-growth forest, especially along streams but sometimes in the understorey, persisting in brush or thickets after destruction of original woodlands and becoming weedy in hedges, ascending from coastal lowlands up to 950 m in Mexico, 1500 m in Costa Rica and Panama, 1300 m in Colombia and Venezuela, in Central America entering the oak-forest, interruptedly widespread, especially along the Gulf-Caribbean slope from s.-e. Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Chiapas) and Belize to w. Panama (e. to Veraguas), reaching the Pacific lowlands only in Oaxaca; apparently absent from centr. and e. Panama but reappearing in n. Colombia (lower Magdalena valley in Bolivar, Magdalena and Santander) and w. Venezuela (Maracaibo basin in Zulia, Cordillera Costanera in Aragua and Cordillera de Merida in Barinas, Merida and Tach- ira).—Fl. mostly (IV-)VI-XII, but perhaps intermittently through the year.— Cachimbillo (Mexico); tres lomos (Oaxaca).