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Abarema obovalis (A. Rich.) Barneby & J. W. Grimes

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Jupunba truncata (Britton) Britton & Rose
Pilhccolohium Iruncatum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 41: 5. 1914.
A tree up to 12 m. high, the bark rough, the young twigs and leaves brownish-puberulent, the old foliage glabrous. Leaves 15 cm. long or less; petiole stout, 1-2 cm. long; glands oblong-orbicular; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs (on leaves of shoots I or 2 pairs), obovate, coriaceous, 1.5-4 cm. long (those of shoots larger and suborbicular), obtuse, narrowed at the base, pinnately veined; peduncles 4—9 cm. long; flowers short-racemose; pedicels stout, puberulent, about 2 mm. long; calyx broadly campanulate, puberulent, coriaceous, 3 mm. long, the limb truncate, the teeth minute, mucronate; corolla finely pubescent, its tube 5-6 mm. long, its lobes 3 mm. long, lanceolate, acute; stamens about 2.5 cm. long, the filaments united about one-fourth their length; legume curved to a nearly complete circle, 6 or 7 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, scarcely or not at all constricted between the seeds; seeds blue and white, somewhat compressed, obovate, shining, 4 or 5 mm. long.
Type locality: El Cobre, west of Santiago, Cuba. Distribution: Oriente, Cuba.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Jupunba obovalis (A. Rich.) Britton & Rose
ItiRa obovalis A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 1: 472. 1845.
Calliandra revoluta Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 83. 1866,
Pithecolobium ohovale C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 5: 407. 1869.
Feuilleea obovalis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 188. 1891.
A tree up to 20 m. in height, the young twigs, petioles and peduncles puberulent, the mature foliage glabrous. Pinnae mostly 2 pairs, with a thick elevated oblong or suborbicular gland 4-8 mm. long between the lower pair and a small orbicular gland between the upper; leaflets 3-5 pairs, broadly obovate, 2-6 cm. long, subcoriaceous, reticulate-veined, dark green above, pale beneath, the apex rounded, the base narrowed; peduncles 3-8 cm. long; flowers short-racemose; pedicels 2-6 mm. long; calyx turbinate, 3-4 ram. long, puberulent or glabrate; corolla about 6 mm. long, deeply lobed, puberulent; stamen-tube short; legume circinate, about 12 mm. broad, the coil 4-5 cm. in diameter, glabrous; seeds ellipsoid, bluish, 4 mm. long.
Type locality: Vuelta de Abajo, Cuba. Distribution: Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Jupunba pinetorum (Britton) Britton & Rose
Pithecolobium pinelorum Britton, BuM. ToTT. Cuh 41: 6. 1914.
A tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs and leaves puberulent, the old foliage nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves 2 dm. long or less; petioles stout, 1.5-3 cm. long; glands oblong, somewhat elevated; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, coriaceous, oblong or obovateoblong, pinnately and loosely reticulate-veined, rounded at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, 3-6 cm. long; peduncles 3-6 cm. long; calyx coriaceous, campanulate, 5 mm. long, its teeth broadly obovate, rounded; corolla pubescent, its tube about 6 mm. long, its lobes 3 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute; stamens 2-2.5 cm. long, united about one-fourth their length; legume curved into a nearly complete circle, about 7 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, flat, not constricted between the seeds; seeds blue and white, shining, orbicular-obovate, 5-6 ram. long.
Type locality: Near Paso Estancia, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Mountains of Oriente, Cuba.
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Abarema obovalis

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Abarema obovalis is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)

References

  • Barneby, R.C. & Grimes, J.W. (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 74(1): 1–292. ISBN 0-89327-395-3
  • International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS) (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
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Abarema obovalis: Brief Summary

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Abarema obovalis is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae.

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