Zygia latifolia (L.) Fawc. & Rendle var. latifolia

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    Barneby, Rupert C. & Grimes, James W. 1997. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part II. , , and . Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-149.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Zygia latifolia (L.) Fawc. & Rendle var. latifolia

  • Type

    Habitat in America." — Based on Acacia non spinosa juglandis folio, flore purpurascente Plumier, Cat. Pl. Amer. 17. 1703 & ex J. Burman, Fl. Amer. 1: 5, t. IX (Mimosa inermis, foliis conjugatis). 1755. — Holotypus, the copy (not verified) at Groningen Uni

  • Synonyms

    Mimosa latifolia L., Inga latifolia (L.) Willd., Calliandra latifolia (L.) Griseb., Feuilleea unguis-cati var. latifolia Kuntze, Zygia arborescens J. St. Hilaire, Pithecellobium latifolium (L.) Benth.

  • Description

    Variety Description - As described for the species, and differing consistently from more widely dispersed var. communis only in pod at least 1.7 cm, usually 2 cm wide or wider; lfts broadly ovate to lance-elliptic, but never more than 5 per pinna.

  • Discussion

    We have found nothing of substance to distinguish subsp. tayronense, either in the protologue or in the holotype. The larger leaflets of the latter are about 13 cm long, and its pod is 17 x 2.8 cm, well within the limits of variation recorded for Z. latifolia var. latifolia.

  • Common Names

    Hoopwood, horsewood , cacolay , maya-maya

  • Distribution

    In moist or flooded woodland, entering the margin of mangrove swamps and ascending inland to ±400 m, discontinously dispersed in lat. 20°N-2°S; SE Mexico (Tabasco); around the Caribbean basin on the Greater Antilles (E Cuba, E Jamaica, SW Haiti), Lesser Antilles (S from Martinique), E Panama and adj. Colombia, Trinidad, thence S in South America, along and near the coast, from the Orinoco delta through the Guianas to the Amazon delta and N Maranhão. — Map 36. — Flowering nearly throughou

    Tabasco Mexico North America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America| Haiti South America| Martinique South America| Panama Central America| Colombia South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| French Guiana South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| Maranhão Brazil South America|