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Schnella eucosma (Blake) Britton & Rose
Bauhinia eucosma Blake. Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 286. 1924.
Climbing on trees, the young branches appressed — pubescent, soon glabrous. Petioles slender, 3-6 cm. long; leaves 2-foliolate, the basal sinus deep and narrow; leaflets semi-ovate, 5-nerved, 5-9 cm. long, overlapping, subchartaceous, glabrous above, sparingly strigose on the veins beneath; flowers in terminal racemes about 6 cm. long, the axis and the pedicels strigose; pedicels 11-16 mm. long, 2-bracteolate; calyx campanulate, 15-ncrved, strigose, 2-2.5 cm. long, its subulate teeth 2-3 mm. long; petals densely strigose, white, about 4 cm. long, rounded, short-clawed; stamens about 15 mm. long; legume flat, oblong-obovate, abruptly tipped, about 10 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, sessile, loosely strigose.
Type locality: Matias Hernandez. Panama. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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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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