Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Anneslia costaricensis Britton & Rose, sp. nov
Glabrous throughout; branches slender. Stipules ovate, acute, about 6 mm, long; petioles very slender, 5-6 cm. long; pinnae 3 pairs; leaflets 10-15 pairs, oblong, or the upper oblongobovate, 2-2.5 cm. long, oblique and subtruncate at base, acute, thin, pale beneath, the lower pair much smaller and narrow; legume glabrous, very elastic and coiled in age, about 8 cm. long and only 3 mm. wide, the valves thin.
Rio Convento, Costa Rica, January, 1897, Pillier 10643.
- 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
