False Tamarind

Lysiloma bahamensis Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3: 82. 1844
Acacia bahamensis Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 221. 1860.
Lysiloma lalisiliqua A. Gray; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 5: 406. 1869. Not Mimosa lalisiliqua L. 1753.
A tree, attaining a ma.xiraum height of about 16 m. with a trunk up to 1 m. in diameter, the smooth, gray bark splitting into scales, the twigs slender, glabrous. Stipules ovate, acuminate; leaves 8-14 cm. long, the petiole bearing a large gland near the lowest pair of pinnae; pinnae 2-5 pairs, 3-8 cm. long; leaflets 10-33 pairs, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sessile, 8-15 mm. long, obtuse, unequally rounded at the base, glabrous; heads racemose, globose, on peduncles 2-4 cm. long; flowers white, mostly perfect; calj-x campanulate, about 1 mm. long; corolla twice as long as the calyx, its lobes reflexed; stamens twice as long as the corolla; legume linear-oblong, S-I5 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, nearly straight, pointed; seeds fiat, about 12 mm. long, dark brown, shining.
Type locality: Bahamas.
Distribution: Florida; Bahamas; Cuba; Hispaniola; Yucatan.

Perennial, Trees, Woody throughout, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Stems solid, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Extrafloral nectary glands on petiole, Stipules conspicuous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Leaves compound, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences globose heads, capitate or subcapitate, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Bracteoles present, Flowers sessile or nearly so, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals united, valvate, Petals white, Stamens numerous, more than 10, 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 coriaceous or becoming woody, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit internally septate between the seeds, Fruit compressed between seeds, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 11-many seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.

Lysiloma latisiliquum, commonly known as false tamarind or wild tamarind, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, southern Mexico, and Belize. Its wood is sometimes traded as sabicu wood.