Lysiloma sabicu Benth.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lysiloma sabicu Benth.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A tree, attaining in Cuban forests a height of 60 m. or more, usually much smaller, the gray bark somewhat scaly, the slender twigs glabrous. Stipules obovate, rounded; leaves 1-2 dm. long, the petiole bearing a small circular gland; pinnae 2-4 pairs; leaflets 3-7 pairs, oval or obovate, 1-2.5 em. long, rounded at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, glabrous, reticulateveined, short-petioled; heads about 1.5 em. in diameter, solitary and long peduncled in the axils; flowers greenish white; calyx about 1 mm. long; corolla about twice as long as the calyx, its lobes villous above; stamens 15-20, 2-3 times as long as the corolla; pod oblong, 7-15 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, rounded at the apex; seeds brown, flat, 6-10 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma and Fortune Island : Cuba ; Hispaniola. Horseflesh. Sabicu.

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