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Abarema oppositifolia (Urb.) Barneby & J. W. Grimes

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Jupunba trinitensis (Britton) Britton & Rose
Pithecolobium trinitense Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 41: 7. 1914.
A tree up to 10 m. high; young twigs, petioles and rachises densely brown-puberulent. Leaves 10-15 cm. long; glands circular, 1 mm. in diameter; petioles 1.5 cm. long or less; pinnae 6-8 pairs, approximate; leaflets 12-16 pairs, oblong, chartaceous, 5-7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide or less, rounded at the apex, obUquely obtuse at the base, glabrous or nearly so and dark green above, pale, and pubescent beneath, at least on the veins, the midvein prominent; peduncles densely puberulent when young, glabrous when old; young flower-heads densely puberulent; flowers apparently capitate; legume curved into a nearly complete circle, about 6 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, somewhat constricted between the seeds; seeds blue, shining, orbicular-obovoid, somewhat compressed, 5 mm. long.
Type locality: Between El Porvenir and Aguacate, Trinidad Mountains, Santa Clara, Cuba* Distribution: Trinidad Moimtains and Banao Mountains, Santa Clara, Cuba.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Jupunba oppositifolia (Urban) Britton & Rose
Pithecolobium oppositifoliicm Urban, Symb. Ant. 2; 258. 1900.
Twigs, petioles, and leaf-rachis densely brown-puberulent. Petioles stout, 1-2 cm. long; pinnae 12-17 pairs, closely approximate, with small oblong glands between or below the pairs; leaflets 18-30 pairs, oblong or narrowly oval, 3-5 mm. long, dark green above, pale beneath and puberulent on the veins, the apex and base rounded or obtuse; peduncles 5-8 cm. long, pilose; flowers capitate, subsessile; calyx 3.5 mm. long, short-pilose; coroUa 5 mm. long, its lobes lanceolate; stamen-tube much shorter than the corolla; ovary tomentose.
Type locality : Mountains near Furcy, vicinity of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Distribution: Mountains near Furcy, Haiti.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Abarema oppositifolia

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Abarema oppositifolia is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)

References

  • Barneby, R.C. & Grimes, J.W. (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 74(1): 1–292. ISBN 0-89327-395-3
  • International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS) (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
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Abarema oppositifolia: Brief Summary

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Abarema oppositifolia is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae.

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