Senna foetidissima var. grandiflora

Title

Senna foetidissima var. grandiflora

Authors

Howard S. Irwin, Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Senna foetidissima var. grandiflora (Benth.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

Description

72b. Senna foetidissima (G. Don) Irwin & Barneby var. grandiflora (Bentham) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia mexicana var. grandiflora Bentham, Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 530. 1871.—"Mexico, between Vera Cruz and Orizaba, Fred. Muller; Alpatlahua, Liebmann."—Lectoholotypus, Muller 150, K (hb. Hook.)! isotypi, Muller s.n. in 1883, NY, US, W! paratypus, Liebmann 91, collected IX. 1841 (fr), K!

Peiranisia simulans Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23(4): 266. 1930.—"Type from between Teneapa and Yajalon, Chiapas, October 13, 1895, E. W. Nelson 3266."—Holotypus, US! isotypus, GH! clastotypus + photo, NY!—Cassia simulans (Britton & Rose) Lundell, Phyto- logia 1: 216. 1937.

Characters as given in key; lfts potentially up to 9 pairs.—Collections: 31.— Fig. 23 (fl, anthers, pod, seed).

Grassy or stony hillsides in the oak-belt, disturbed thickets, sometimes in hedges, mostly 1000-2250 but in Sinaloa down to 200 m, scattered across s. and s.-w. Mexico, the populations remotely disjunct: abundant in highland Chiapas (mun. Cintalapa e. to mun. Comitan); local on the Gulf slope of Sa. Madre Oriental in Veracruz (Alpatlahua to Orizaba); Sa. Madre del Sur in w. Michoacan (mun. Coalcoman), e. Guerrero (mun. Tixtla de Guerrero) and adj. Oaxaca (Putla; Juxtlahuaca), and apparently isolated near 24°15' in the foothills of Sa. Madre Occidental in Sinaloa (mun. Cosala).—Fl. (VI-)VII-XII.—Chile de Gato (Veracruz); hediondilla (Oaxaca).