Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia portoricensis (Jacq.) Donn. Smith, Enum. PI Guat. 2: 18. 1891.
Mimosa portoricensis Jacq. Coll. 4: 143. 1790. Acacia portoricensis Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1069. 1806. ? Acacia venusia Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1052. 1809. Acacia angtdata Desv. Joum. Bot. 3: 68. 1814. Acacia linearis V>csw. Hamilt. Prodr. 59. 1825. Acacia Hamilloni Desv.; Hamilt. Prodr. 59. 1825. Acacia vespertina Macf. Fl. Jam. 1: 318. 1837. Lysitotna ^larchiana Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 223. 1860. FeuiUlea portoricensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 184. 1891.
A shrub, usually not over 3 m. high, rarely a tree up to 8 m. high, the twigs and foliage glabrous or pubescent; pinnae 2-6 pairs; leaflets 10-30 pairs, linear or linear-oblong, straight or slightly curved, 8-16 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide or less, few-veined, obtuse, thin; peduncles slender, clustered or solitary, 3-10 cm. long; calyx 2 mm. long; corolla 3-4 mm. long; stamens white, 1.5-2 cm. long; legume 4-10 cm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, glabrous when mature, obtuse, narrowed toward the base.
Type locamty: Porto Rico.
Distribution: Jamaica; Haiti to Tortola; San Luis Potosi to El Salvador. Recorded from tropical Africa.
- 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
Physical Description
provided by USDA PLANTS text
Perennial, Shrubs, Herbs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Le af or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Inflorescence axillary, Inflorescence terminal, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals greenish yellow, Stamens numerous, more than 10, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens monadelphous, united below, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit stipitate, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit explosively or elastically dehiscent, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seed with elliptical line or depression, pleurogram, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
