Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Peltophorum berteroanum Urban, vSymb. Ant. 2: 286. 1900
A tall tree, the young branches, petioles, rachis, and inflorescence brownish-puberulent. Leaves with 7-10 pairs of pinnae; leaflets 14-20 pairs, linear-oblong, chartaceous, 4-7 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, glabrate above, puberulent beneath, obtuse; racemes panicled or corymbose; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; calyx-segments 5-6 mm. long; bracts linear, nearly as long as the pedicels, deciduous; legume 6-6.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, stipitate, pilose-puberulent.
Type locality: Santo Domingo. Distribution: Southern Hispaniola.
- 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
