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(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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Species
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PITHECOLOBIUM HYMENEAEFOLIUM (H. & B.) Benth.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 3:198. 1844.
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Synonym
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Inga hymenaeaefolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. P1. 4:1008. 1806. Mimosa bymeneaefolia Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. 1:38. 1810. Pithecolobium Panamense Walp. & Duchass. in Linnaea 23:746. 1850.
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Description
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Shrub or small tree to a few meters' tall; branchlets subglabrous, minutely lenticellate, with a few longitudinal lines or thin ridges and usually paired nodal thorns. Leaves moderate, bipinnate, the pinna bifoliolate; petiole mostly 2-4 cm. long, canaliculate above, glabrous, bearing apically a sessile, cupular gland; axis of the pinna up to 2 cm. long, like the petiole; mature leaflets asymmetrically ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 6-13 cm. long and 2-5 cm. wide, bluntly acute apically, ob- liquely rounded basally, glabrous above and below except often barbate basally below on the narrow side; stipules modified as small to prominent recurved thorns or spines to either side of the petiolar insertion. Inflorescence of elongate, axillary, subterminal and terminal pedunculate spikes; peduncle 1.5-6 cm. long, sub- glabrous; floriferous portion of the spike mostly 3-6 cm. long, the axis tomentulose and few-sulcate, the flowers condensed; bractlets minute, ovate-subulate. Flowers large, sessile, whitish; calyx cupular, about 2 mm. long, tomentulose, the teeth short and somewhat irregular; corolla funnelform, usually about 1 cm. long, tomentulose without, valvate; stamens 5-6 cm. long, united basally into a promi- nently exserted staminal tube 2-4 cm. long; ovary sessile, pubescent; style (plus ovary) about 6 cm. long, the stigma capitellate. Legume 7-10 cm. long and about 15 mm. wide, falcate, compressed, tomentose, rugose, few-seeded, the seeds black.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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Panama, Colombia, Venezuela.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: "north end of island" (Miraflores?), P. White 124; R. Chagres, Steyer- mark d Allen i6790; Salamanca Hydrographic Station, Woodson, Allen d Seibert i567. PANAMA: Taboga Island, Woodson, Allen &! Seibert I539; Chepo, Dodge, Hunter, Steyer- mark d Allen i6663.
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Note
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The corolla of the cited specimens is slightly shorter than dimensions given for the species by most authors. There is some uncertainty as to application of the Willdenow name and its interpretation by later authors.
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