Sophora tomentosa L.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sophora tomentosa L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub 1-3 m. tall, with silky-tomentose foliage. Leaves 1-2 dm. long; leaflets 11-17, the blades leathery, oblong, oblong-obovate or oval, inequilateral, becoming glabrous and revolute-margined; racemes elongating, 1-4 dm. long; pedicels 5-10 mm. long; calyx oblong or oblong-funnelform, 5-8 mm. long, constricted at the base, undulate or indistinctly 5-lobed; corolla yellow; standard with an ovate blade fully 1 cm. broad, and over 1.5 cm. long; keel-petals 20 mm. long; pods 5-10 cm. long, strongly constricted between the seeds, long-stalked.

  • Distribution

    Coastal thickets, coppices and white-lands, throughout the archipelago from Great Bahama through Andros and Eleuthera to Caicos, Grand Turk, Inagua and Anguilla Isles: Bermuda; Florida; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and St. Vincent; Jamaica ; Aruba ; Old World tropics. Coast Sophora.

    Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Jamaica South America| Aruba South America|