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Published In: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 37(2): 302–304, f. 102. 1950. (Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/22/2010)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 7/22/2010)
Changes: Taxonomy change

Conservation Calculations     (Last Modified On 7/22/2010)
Ecological Value: 2.55000
Num Project Specimens: 12
Newest Specimen Year: 2019
Oldest Specimen Year: 1977
Conservation Value: 40.95000
Conservation Abbrev: NT

 

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Leucaena multicapitula Schery, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 302. 1950.

Arboles, 6–15 m de alto, ramas pubescentes a glabras. Pinnas 3–4 pares, (3–) 5.3–7 cm de largo; folíolos 3–6 pares, ovado-lanceolados a lanceolados, (27–) 30–35 mm de largo y (1–) 1.5–2.4 cm de ancho, ápice acuminado o atenuado, mucronado, pubescentes en la haz, densamente pubescentes en el envés; raquis 5.4–9.5 cm de largo, pecíolos 2–3.5 cm de largo, con una glándula obovada de 2.5–3.5 (–7) mm de largo y 1–2 mm de ancho, cóncava o aplanada. Capítulos en la antesis 0.5--0.8 cm de diámetro, pedúnculo 0.5--1 cm de largo; cáliz 1.5 mm de largo; corola 2 mm de largo; estambres 5 mm de largo. Infructescencia sobre un pedúnculo de 1–1.3 cm de largo, fruto 9–11 cm de largo y 2–2.7 cm de ancho, ápice redondeado o retuso, mucronado a apiculado, base redondeada, membranáceo, receptáculo 3–4 mm de largo y hasta 3 mm de ancho, estípite 11 mm de largo, esbelto, abrupto; semillas 7.5–8 mm de largo y 4.3–4.7 mm de ancho.

Ocasional, bosques altos húmedos, zona atlántica; 15–200 m; fl jul, fr sep; Stevens 2804, 3840; Nicaragua to Panama. This species was treated in the published Flora de Nicaragua as a synonym of Leucaena trichodes (Jacq.) Benth., a species of the West Indies and South America. The capitula of L. multicapitula are arranged in a inflorence of 2 degrees of branching while those of L. trichodes are generally in fasicles from the leaf axilles are occasionally in a 1-branched inflorescence. In addition the peiolar gland of L. trichodes differs from that of L. multicapitula by being conical with a narrow pore.

 


 

 
 
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