Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chamaecrista rotundifolia (Pers.) Greene, Pittonia 4; 31. 1899
Cassia rotundifolia Pers. Svn. 1: 456. ISO.S.
Cassia bifoliala DC; CoUad. Hist. Cass. 120. 1816.
Cassia fabaginifolia H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 363. 1824.
Perennial; herbaceous; somewhat woody below; branches slender, glabrate, pubescent, or pilose, prostrate or ascending, 2-6 dm. long. Stipules ovate, cordate, strongly several-nerved, acuminate, glabrous, 4—12 mm. long; petiole eglandular, pubescent; leaflets I pair, obliquely elliptic-obovate, membranous, glabrous, or the margin ciliolate, 0.6-3 cm. long, 4or 5-nerved and pinnately veined, the apex rounded, the costa excentric; pedicels filiform, 1-2.5 cm. long, the bractlets linear-subulate; sepals lanceolate, sparingly pubescent, about 4 mm. long; petals slightly longer than the sepals; legume linear, 1.5-3 cm. long, about 4 mm. wide, short-tipped, puberulent.
Type uocauity: South America.
Distribution: Jamaica; Cuba; Sinaloa to Jalisco; Costa Rica; adventive in Florida. Also in Venezuela and Brazil.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
