Swartzia latifolia Benth.
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Authority
Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae Swartzieae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 1: 3-228. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Tree 6-10 m tall; stipules deciduous to persistent, falcate, elliptic, acute, costulate, minutely puberulous or strigulose externally, glabrous within; petioles 1.5-4 cm long, canaliculate, stipellate at apex, minutely puberulous or strigulose; rachis marginate to narrowly alate or only canaliculate, stipellate at each pair of leaflets, minutely puberulous or strigulose; leaflets 2-4-jugate, the petiolules 1-2 mm long, minutely puberulous or strigulose, the blades glabrous on the upper surface, minutely puberulous or strigulose beneath, the venation finely reticulate-venose and plane on the upper surface, salient beneath; inflorescences racemose, 7-16 cm long, in ramigerous or cauligerous fascicles, the axis minutely strigulose or puberulous, the bracts persistent to deciduous, triangular to ovate, 1-2 mm long, 1 mm wide, minutely strigulose externally, the bracteoles lacking; pedicels minutely strigulose; buds globose or subglobose, 5-7 mm diameter; calyx segments 3-4, minutely strigulose externally, glabrous within; petal yellow, glabrous, the claw 1.5-2.5 mm long, the blade oval to rounded, 9-11 mm long, 5-9 mm wide; larger stamens 3-5, glabrous, the filaments 7-10 mm long, the anthers 2.5-3 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, oblong, the smaller stamens glabrous, the filaments 6-10 mm long, the anthers 1-1.5 mm long; gynoecium sericeous, the stigma truncate, the style 0.5-1 mm long, the ovary 5-7.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, narrowly oblong, arcuate, the gynophore 2-5.5 mm long.
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Distribution
(Fig. 8). Southwestern Guyana and adjacent Brazil, in noninundated riverine forest or more rarely savanna.
Brazil South America| Guyana South America|