Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Peiranisia shaferi (Britton & Wilson) Britton & Rose
Cassia Shaferi Britton & Wilson, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 459. 1916.
A shrub, about 1 m. high, the twigs, petioles and inflorescence villous-hirsutulous. Stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, acuminate, caducous; petiole bearing a slender gland, 1.5-2 mm. long, between the lower pair of leaflets; leaflets 4-6 pairs, oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long, rounded and mucronate at apex, hirsutulous beneath; sepals suborbicular, densely hirsutulous, 4-5 mm. long; petals strongly veined, about twice as long as the sepals; legume about 1 1 cm. long and 9 mm. broad, subulate-tipped, slightly curved; seeds 3.5-4.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Loma Mensura, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Northern Oriente, Cuba.
- 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
