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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 PILIFERA Vogel
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Syn. Cass. 23. 1837.
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Synonym
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?Cassia cubensis Hoffmansegg, Pfl. Verz. 1:209. 1824. Cassia maritima Willd. in Vogel, loc. cit. 1837, fide Benth. Emelista pilifera (Vog.) Pittier, in Jour. Wash. Acad. 19:176. 1929.
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Description
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Shrub or large herb, the branchlets pilose or setose. Leaves moderate, normally 4-foliolate; petioles up to 4 cm. long, loosely pilose; rachis much shorter than the petiole, up to 1 cm. long, normally bearing between both pairs of leaflets a linear- subulate gland 3-4 mm. long; stipules linear-filiform, usually about 1 cm. long, pilose like the rachis and branches; leaflets elliptic to obovate, up to 6 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, apically narrowly rounded to obtuse or subacute, basally unequal and oblique, pubescent above and below, dull above and somewhat glaucous below, obscurely reticulate, membranaceous; petiolules 1-2 mm. long, pubescent like the petiole. Inflorescence of few axillary, subterminal flowers, often umbellate (up to 4-flowered) from a common peduncle in the lower axils. Flowers yellow, large; sepals relatively small, ovate to lanceolate, up to 9 mm. long and 4 mm. wide, very unequal, sparingly long-pubescent; petals ovate or suborbicular, up to 2.3 cm. long and almost as wide, clawed, venose, lightly pubescent to glabrous in age; fertile stamens 7, dehiscent by a pair of approximate terminal pores, the 3 lowermost un- equal, linear-oblong, rostrate, arcuate, the anther of the largest about 1 cm. long with an elongate filament; 4 median stamens unequal, short-rostrate (the rostrum strongly reflexed), the largest anther about 5-6 mm. long; ovary linear, pubescent. Legume up to 16 cm. long while only 3-4 mm. wide, subquadrate, margined, de- hiscent, arcuate, tomentulose to pilose; seeds longitudinal, rectangular, about 3 mm. long.
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Habit
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Shrub herb
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Distribution
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Mexico to Argentina; Cuba.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Balboa, Standley 26057, 27II8, 29303; Las Cruces Trail, Standley 290I0. PANAMA: Alhajuela, Pittier 2367; between Capira and Potrero, Dodge & Hunter 86io; Chepo, Mell s.n.; Corozal road, Standley 26880; Matias Hernandez, Standley 289I9,3I9I7.
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