Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chamaefistula insularis Britton & Rose, sp. nov
CfliJia <;/ir>'iO/nV;ia Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 79. 1S66. Not Collad. 1816.
A shrub, 1-2 m. high, or vine-like and 2-4 m. long, the branches, petioles and inflorescence softly villous-pubescent. Stipules filiform, 2-3 mm. long; petioles 1.5 cm. long or less; gland between the lower pair of leaflets slender, pointed; leaflets orbicular to oblong, 1-3 cm. long, rounded at apex, or retuse, glabrate above, pubescent beneath; inflorescence a.xillary, racemose, 3-7 cm. long, few-several-flowered; pedicels S-12 mm. long; bracts ovate to oblong, 3-5 mm. long; sepals orbicular, 6-8 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, somewhat ciliate; petals 10-14 mm. long; legume nearly terete, 2-7 cm. long, 10-16 mm. thick, short-stipitate, glabrous, shining.
Cuba and Isle of Pines. Type from Tetas de Camarioca, Matanzas, February 7, 1916, Britton, Britton & Wilson 14012.
- 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