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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Species
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CASSIA BREVIPES DC.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Collad. Hist. Cass. 119. 1816.
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Synonym
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Chamaecrista brevipes (DC.) Greene, in Pittonia 4:31. 1899.
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Description
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A shrub of open, seasonally dry places, the branchlets usually pilose-tomentose. Leaves small, bijugate; petiole about 5 mm. long, pubescent, bearing a sessile, cupuliform gland in the upper portion; rachis shorter than the petiole; stipules lanceolate-cordate, up to 1 cm. long, subensheathing the stem, venose with promi- nent subparallel veins; leaflets 4, asymmetrically obovate or obovate-elliptic, up to 2 cm. long and 5-10 mm. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous to lightly pubescent, the prominent veins subparallel. Flowers arising singly from the axils, yellow, usually short-pedicellate; sepals 5, unequal, narrowly lanceolate, up to 1.5 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, scarious-coriaceous or almost glumaceous, the veins subparallel; petals 5, obovate, up to 23 mm. long and 13 mm. wide, glabrous, membranaceous; fertile stamens evidently 10 all similar, the anthers linear, 7-9 mm. long, puberulent laterally along the margins, dehiscent by paired terminal pores; ovary pilose, short. Legume oblong, up to 3.5 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide, oblique apically and basally,, flat, pilose, elastically dehiscent, the seeds transverse, linear.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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Central America and northern South America.
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Specimen
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COCLE: Oia, Pittier 5OI3; Penonome, Williams I26.
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