Sophora tomentosa L.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sophora tomentosa L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall, whitish, grayish, or yellowish tomentose, especially when young. Leaves 12-20 cm long; leaflets 9-19, opposite or subopposite, 2.3-5 X 1-2.7 cm, ovate to elliptic, chartaceous, densely tomentose on lower surface, the apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes apiculate, the base obtuse, asymmetric, the margins revolute; petiolules 2-3 mm long; rachis cylindrical, tomentose; stipules linear-triangular, ca. 3 mm long. Racemes terminal, to 25 cm long, few- to many-flowered. Calyx asymmetrically bell-shaped, 7-8 mm long, tomentose; corolla yellow, the standard to 18 mm long, narrowly ovate, clawed, the wings and keel as long as the standard. Legume 8-12 cm long, torulose, long-stipitate, long-tipped at apex. Seeds 4-8, 5-6 mm long, nearly globose, yellowish brown.

  • Distribution

    Occasional along the sandy coast. Dittlif Point (W805), Haulover Bay (A4146). Also on Anegada, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; pantropical.

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