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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Subspecific
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CASSIA LEPTOCARPA var. HIRSUTA Benth
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PlaceOfPublication
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Trans. Linn. Soc. 27:531. 1871.
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Synonym
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Ditremexa leptocarpa (Benth.) Britt. & Rose, in N. Am. Fl. 23:256. 1930 (in part).
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Description
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Shrub to 2 m., with pubescent branchlets. Leaves pubescent (in Panama), several-foliolate; petiole up to 10 cm. long, angled, with a conspicuous basal gland about 6 mm. above the insertion; rachis lightly pubescent to hirsute; stipules linear, about 1 cm. long, caducous; leaflets usually about 5 pairs, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute and somewhat acuminate apically, obtuse to acute basally, 3-10 cm. long and up to 3.5 cm. wide. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary, several-flowered, condensed raceme; pedicels usually about 1.5 cm. long, pubescent. Flowers yellow; sepals elliptic to suborbicular, 6-8 mm. long, the outermost densely pubescent; petals obovate to suborbicular, up to 14 mm. long, venose, short-clawed; stamens 4-morphic, all dehiscent by apical pores, 7 fertile; the lowermost with a slender filament, with the anther oblong, about 3 mm. long, briefly sagittate basally, bounded on each side by a large stamen with a thick filament, with the anther 6-7 mm. long, very briefly sagittate basally, apically with an erect orbicular rostrum above the pores; 4 median stamens similar to large ones but their anthers 4-5 mm. long; 3 upper stamens non-functional, the anthers flat, orbicular-oblong, about 2 mm. long; ovary setose-hirsute; the style short. Legume linear, up to 30 cm. long and 3-4 mm. wide, thin, flattened, pubescent (in Panama), the margins ridged.
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Habit
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Shrub
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Distribution
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Mexico; Central America; West Indies; South America to Paraguay.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Carreters, von Wedel I3; vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1333, I738; Chorrera, Porterfield s. n.
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Note
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Bentham's variety hirsulte is not recognized by Britton & Rose in the 'North American Flora.
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