Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sauvallella immarginata (C. Wright) Rydb. Am. Jour Bot. 11: 480. 1924.
Corynella immarginata C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 5: 333. 1S69. Corynites immarginata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 173. 1891.
A shrub; branches puberulent, in age gray; stipules lance-deltoid, 3-5 cm. long, acuminate; leaves 9-12 cm. long; rachis puberulent. strongly sulcate; leaflets 1 1-15, lance-oblong to nearly linear, acute at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, mucronate, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous on both sides or puberulent beneath; stipels minute, lanceolate; racemes short, axillary; pedicels 3-5 cm. long; calyx turbinate, 4 mm. high, 5 mm. broad, 5-lobed, the lower three lobes less than 1 mm. long, the upper two minute, close together, obtuse; corolla rose-red; banner suborbicular, retuse, 1 cm. long; wings obliquely obovate, obtuse, 13 mm. long, with a lanceolate basal auricle; keel-petals lunate, acute, 15-17 mm. long.
Type locality: Cajarbana, Cuba. Distribution: Western Cuba.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY