Lonchocarpus violaceus (Jacq.) Kunth ex DC.

OCR>>>DAUBENY HERBARIUM (FHO) University of Oxford
Flora of Grenada
Family: Fabaceae
Name: Lonchocarpus violaceus (Jacq.) DC.
Loca lity: Grenada, St. Patrick, Lake Antoine, slopes above Lake Antoine, N side of crater.
12°10' N, 61°36'W
Alt. (m): 150
Notes: Small to medium-sized multi-stemmed tree with an open crown to 8 m height.
Outer bark smooth, pale yellow-grey with occasional horizontal creases with lenticels aligned in wavy vertical strips. Slash granular with vertical fibrous streaks, outer layer green, pale orange-cream, sweet vegetable smell like courgettes.
Leaves, some with as few as 5 leaflets; upper surface -midrib and all venation slightly impressed and yellow; Lower surface - midrib prominent, laterals flat, yellow, all venation visible as more translucent.
Sparse crop of unripe 1 or 2-seeded pods, green, tinged maroon, thickened and fleshy.
Locally abundant.
Collector: Hawthorne, W. D. & Hughes, C. E.
Number: 341
Date: 3 December 1999<<<OCR