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Jupunba savannarum (Britton) Britton & Rose
PHhecolobUim savannarum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 41: 4. 1914.
A tree up to 7 m. high, with smooth bark, the foliage finely and densely puberulent when young, glabrous or sparingly puberulent when old. Leaves 1.5-2 dm. long, the rather stout petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; pinnae about 4 pairs, the glands somewhat elevated; leaflets 4-6 pairs, obliquely obovate, 1.5-3 cm. long, chartaceous, loosely reticulate-veined, deep green and somewhat shining above, pale and dull beneath, obtuse or refuse at the apex, acute at the base; peduncles slender, glabrous, 7-9 cm. long; flowers short-racemose, white; pedicels glabrous, 3-6 mm. long; calyx 3-4 mm. long, subtruncate at the base, campanulate, its teeth acute; corolla appressed-pubescent, 8 mm. long, its lobes ovate-oblong; stamens united about onethird their length; ovary and young legume densely pubescent; old legumes 8-10 cm. long, the valves doubly coiled after dehiscence, 4-6 mm. wide across the seed cavities, 2 mm. wide between them; seed-cavities oblong, 8-10 mm. long.
Type locality: Along a water course on barren savannas southeast of Holguin, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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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 glauca (Urban) Britton & Rose
Pilhecolobium glaucum Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 227. 1912.
A tree, the young twigs and petioles densely brownish-tomentulose. Petioles 1-3 cm. long, sometimes bearing a gland 4 mm. in diameter; pinnae 3 or 4 pairs, the glands small, concave; leaflets 4-8 pairs, obovate or subrhombic, chartaceous, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, reticulateveined, glabrous, or sparingly pilose on the veins beneath, the apex rounded, the base narrowed, glaucous above, paJe beneath; peduncles short-pilose, solitary or binate, 5-7 cm. long; flowers short-racemose, white; calyx turbinate, 3 mm. long, its teeth short; corolla 7 mm. long; stamen-tube about 5 mm. long; legume circinate, 7-8 mm. broad, the coil about 4 cm. in diameter, glabrous, reticulate-veined, constricted between the obovate, dark brown seeds.
Type locality: Bahoruco, near Barahona, Santo Domingo. Distribution; Type locality and vicinity.
- 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
Abarema glauca: Brief Summary
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Abarema glauca, the glaucous abarema, is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti). Abarema glauca is found most easily on the east coast of Dominican Republic, in Uvero Alto, north of Punta Cana.
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