Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Zygia longifolia (H. & B.) Britton & Rose
Inga longifolia H. & B.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1010. 1806.
Mimosa liguslrina Vahl, Eclog. 3: 34. 1807. Not Mimosa liguslrina Jacq. 1801.
Pithecolobium ligustrinum Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3: 213. 1844.
Inga Vahlianum DC. Prodr. 2; 438. 1825.
Pithecolobium glomcralum spicaliim Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald. 116. 1853.
Pithecolobium Vahlianum Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 594. 1875.
Feuilleea longifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 185. 1891.
A tree, up to 12 m. high, the twigs glabrous. Stipules small, 3-4 mm. long, deciduous; pinnae 1 pair; petiole very short or wanting; glands borne between the pinnae and the terminal pair of leaflets; leaflets lanceolate to oblong or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, sometimes acuminate, 4—12 cm. long, glabrous; flowers in loose fascicled spikes 2 cm. long; calyx 1 mm. long; corolla 6-7 mm. long, glabrous, striate; staminal tube exserted; legume somewhat curved, 15-30 cm. long, 12-15 mm. broad, cuneate at base, glabrous.
Type locality: tropical America.
Distribution: Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Colombia.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
