Senna pumilio (A.Gray) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Texas

• County/Municipio

  Burnet Co.

• City/Township

  Marble Falls

• Locality

  Plants of Marble Falls

• Coordinates

  30.5782, -98.2728

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  5267

• Georeferencing Method

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• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Caaaia pumilio A. Gray, Bost. Journ.Nat. Hist.6: 180 (1850) (Pollard,Bull.Torrey Club
21* 211 1894) ifclant low- (8-15 cm.}, with tufted stems from the long,branching rhizome; stems
and leaves sparsely pubescent; leaflets linear, or the earliest obovate(3-3.5 cm. long, 2 cm.
wide), slightly shorter than the elongated rhacbis; petiolar gland slender, setaceous, situatd
between lowermost pair of leaflets; stipules acute, linear, membranceous, persistent; flowers
resembling those of Cassia Raemeriana, but solitary on elongated axillary peducles; calyx
persistent; sepals slightly shorter thanpetals; legume turgid, oval, truncate,finely pubescent
length 1.5 cm., width 7 cm. West Texas and New Mexico, extending south into Mexico.
36. THARPIA Britton & Rose, gen. nov.
k A low, tufted herb, with a slender woody caudex, narrow persistent stipules, the eglandular
/leaves with a single pair of very narrow, subconaceous leaflets, the petiole tipped by a slender
Past 4, 1930]
CAESALPINIACEAE
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New York Botanical Garden
cusp. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered. Sepals 5, narrowly oblong, nearly equal. Petals 5,
nearly equal. Perfect stamens 7; staminodes 3. Legume globose-ellipsoid, sessile, swollen,
membranous, indehiscent. Seeds few, suborbicular, compressed.
Trp.^ <^«%^oniRose AID.
1. Tharpia pumilio (A. Gray) Britton & Rose.
Cassia pumilio A. Gray, Bost. Joum. Nat. Hist. 6: 180. 1850.
Short-caulescent, 3-10 cm. high, strigulose. Leaves numerous; stipules linear, green, 4-10
tnm, long; petiole slender, 1-2 cm. long, tipped by a subulate cusp 4—5 mm. long; leaflets linear
to narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or ciliate, 1-4.5 cm. long, 1.5-5 mm. wide, cuspidate; peduncles
axillary, 3-7 cm. long, one-flowered; pedicel bracteolate at base, 10-15 mm. long; flower-bud
nodding; sepals 7-10 mm. long, obtuse, nerved; petals pale yellow, strongly veined, a little
longer than the sepals; legume inflated, 10-15 mm. long, 8-10 mm. in diameter, densely puberu-
lent; seeds 4-5 mm. broad.
Tips locality : On the Llano and Perdenales, 'Texas.
Distribution: Texas and New Mexico to Coahuila and San Luis Potosí.
15BS3AB
Exuniaad for
HOJTH AMERICAN FLORA.
New York Botanical Garden
Plants of Marble Falls, Texas
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E. N. PLANK, Collector
August 10, 1892
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