Swartzia cubensis var. nicaraguensis (Britton & Rose) 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 cubensis var. nicaraguensis (Britton & Rose) R.S.Cowan

Type

Type collection. J. T. Roig 3162 (holotype NY; isotype US), Valle de San Juan, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Apr. 1924.

Synonyms

Tounatea cubensis Britton & P.Wilson, Swartzia lundellii Standl.

Description

Description - Branchlets pilosulose to tomentulose; stipules caducous, (2-)6-11 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, often falcate, acute to acuminate, densely strigulose externally, glabrous on the inner surface; leaflets 5-7(-9)-jugate; inflorescence axis strigulose and/or pilosulose.

Common Names

Catalox, cataosh, cataox, katalox, Llora Sangre, pico de gallo

Distribution

(Fig. 27). Forests of western Cuba, Yucatan Peninsula and adjacent Guatemala and British Honduras, and the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, often growing on soil underlaid by limestone.

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