Swartzia curranii R.S.Cowan

  • Authority

    Cowan, Richard S. 1967. Swartzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae Swartzieae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 1: 3-228. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Swartzia curranii R.S.Cowan

  • Type

    Type collection. H. M. Curran 577 (holotype GH; isotypes MO, NY, S, US), Colonia de Gongugy, Baia, Brazil, Oct. 1918.

  • Description

    Description - Arbor vel arbuscula, ramulis novellis puberulis; stipulae caducae falcato-ovatae acutae; petioli 34-40 mm longi, apice stipellati ad apicem, rhaches 12.5-16.5 cm longae, leviter marginatae ad basim foliolorum stipellatae; foliola 4- vel 5-jugata, petiolulis 1.5-2 mm longis, puberulis, laminis ovalibus ad oblongis, 5-10 cm longis, 3-4.5 cm latis, basi rotundatis apicaliter abrupte breviter acutis, supra glabris infra leviter pilosis; inflorescentiae ramuligerae, 8.5-10.5 cm longae, axe subappresso-pilosulo, bracteis persistentibus, ca 1 mm longis et 3 mm latis, late ovatis, bracteolis pedicellorum ad apicem nascentibus, ca 3 mm longis, lanceolatis, dense strigulosis externe; pedicelli 6-7 mm longi, pilosuli; alabastra ca 8 mm diametro, globosa dense pilosulosa; calycis segmenta pilosulosa externe et intus strigoso-sericea, pilis aureis; petalum extus leviter villosum, unguiculo ca 4 mm longo, lamina ca ovali et 10 mm longa; stamina maiora 4, filamentis 8-9 mm longis, villosis, antheris oblongis, ca 3 mm longis, stamina minora glabra; gynoecium sericeum, ovario ca 4 mm longo et 1.5 mm lato, gynophoro 5 mm longo; fructus non visus.

  • Discussion

    This species is doubtless closely associated with the S. macrostachya complex but differs from it, as well as most of its relatives, by the densely pubescent inner surfaces of the calyx segments. Two other species, S. glaziouiana from the same general area of Brazil and S. pickelii, have the calyx pubescent within but in these species the gynoecium is glabrous.

  • Common Names

    Pau sangi preta

  • Distribution

    (Fig. 15). Known only by the type collection from southeastern Baía, Brazil.

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