Caesalpinia bahamensis Lam.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Caesalpiniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Caesalpinia bahamensis Lam.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A prickly shrub, 1.5-2.5 in. high, or rarely a small tree up to 4 in. high, the young twigs and leaves brownish tomentulose or glabrate, becoming glabrous, "the leaves unarmed, or bearing a few prickles. Leaves 8-25 cm. long; petioles 1-3 cm. long; pinnae 2-4 pairs, stalked, 15 em. long or less; leaflets 3-6 pairs, short-petioluled, obovate to elliptic, 1-4 cm. long, subcoriaceous, emarginate or rounded at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, reticulate-veined, shining above, dull beneath; racemes mostly as long as the leaves or Longer; pedicels 1-2.5 cm. long, jointed above; calyx about 9 mm. long; petals yellowish green, shorter than the calyx; sta.uens curved, 2-3 times as long as the calyx; pod flat, broadly linear, 5-7 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide, glabrous, Bhort-stipitate, acuminate.

  • Distribution

    Coppices and scrub binds. Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Guana Cay: Cuba. Recorded by Schoepf as c. brasiliensia L. Bahama Caesalpinia. Catesby, 2 : pi. 51.

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