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Comprehensive Description

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Harpalyce mexicana Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb 8: 42. 1903.
A small tree; young branches densely grayish-villous, not ferruginous, in age glabrate with conspicuous white lenticels; leaves 15-20 cm. long; petiole 3-4 cm. long, as well as the rachis densely whiteor grayish-villous; leaflets 11-15, lance-oblong, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, rounded at the base, obtuse or acutish and mucronate at the apex, broadest near the base, sparingly pubescent on both sides when young, glabrate in age, with orange glands and strongly veined and reticulate beneath; flowers not known; pod woody, oblong, 5-6 cm. long, 2.5 cm.. wide, glabrous, 2-3-seeded; seeds brown, 12 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, obovoid. Perhaps this species does not belong to Harpalyce.
Type locality: West of Bolaflos, Jalisco.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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