Lysiloma

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Mimosaceae

• Scientific Name

  Lysiloma

• Description

  Description - Unarmed trees or shrubs, with slender branches, bipinnate leaves, the small flowers in heads or spikes. Calyx eampamilate, 5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobod Stamens numerous, more than twice as many as the corolla-lobes, the filaments united below into a tube. Ovary sessile or short-stalked; style slender or filiform; ovules several or numerous. Pods flat, linear or oblong, the valves separating from the continuous margins. Seeds transverse, flattened. [Greek, referring to the separating of the pod-valves from the margins.] About 10 species of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Lysiloma bahamensis Benth.