Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Peiranisia benitoensis (Britton & WiLson) Britton & Rose
Cassia benitoensis Britton & Wilson, Mem. Torrey Club 16: 66. 1920.
A shrub, 1-3 m. high, the young branches, petioles and rachis strigose-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 6-7 mm. long; leaflets 5 or 6 pairs, oblong to elliptic, 1.5-2.4 cm. long, rounded and mucronulate at apex, rounded and oblique at base, somewhat ciliate; gland borne between the lower pair of leaflets, slender, subclavate, 2 mm. long; legume 14 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, glabrous, acute, aristate.
Type locality: Camp San Benito, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution; Known only from the type locality.
- 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
