Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Senegalia subsessilis Britton & Rose, sp. nov
a
A glabrous shrub, armed with small prickles. Stipules small, setaceous; petiolar gland small, slightly elevated; petiole and rachis also bearing numerous minute sessile glands and a few prickles; pinnae small, 2-6 pairs; leaflets 3-8 pairs, linear-oblong, 2-4 mm. long, acutish, strongh' nerved beneath, the midvein e.xcentric; fruiting peduncles only 3 or 4 mm. long; legume 10 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad, sessile, more or less constricted between the seeds, the base broadly cuneate.
Near Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, 1905, /. N. Rose S926.
- 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