Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Asacara aquatica (Marsh.) Raf. Sylva Tell. 121. 1838
Gleditsia ineniiis Mill. Card. Diet. ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. Not L. 1759.
Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Arbust. .'m. 54. 1785.
Gleditsia carolinetisis Lam. Encyc. 2: 465. 1786.
Gleditsia monosperma Walt. Fl. Car. 254. 1788.
Gleditsia triacantlios aquatica Castiglioni, Viag. Stati Unit 2: 249. 1790.
Gleditsia Iriacantha Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 311. 1791.
Caesalpiyioides tnonospermitm Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 167. 1891.
A tree, up to 20 m. high, with a trunk 6-8 dm. in diameter. Thorns sometimes more than 1 dm. long; leaves once pinnate or when twice pinnate with 3 or 4 pairs of pinnae; leaflets ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, glabrous, crenate; racemes drooping, elongated, sometimes 2 dm. long; calx-lol es and petals 2 mm. long: legume glabrous, 2-4 cm. long, tapering into an elongated stipe.
Type locality: Carolina.
Distribution: Southern Indiana to Missouri. Florida and Texas.
- 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
