Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Pithecellobium Bertolonii Bcnth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 30:
588. 1875.
Mimosa monilifera Bertol. Novi Comm. Bonon. 4: 441. 1840. Not Pithecolobium moniliferum
Benth. 1844. Feuilleea Bertolonii Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 187. 1891.
Branches pubescent. Leaves petioled; petioles pubescent; pinnae 2 pairs; leaflets 2 pairs, elliptic, obtuse, pilose; glands urceolate, borne at the end of the petiole and between the leaflets; flowers capitate, the heads racemose, stalked or subsessile, the stalks spreading or reflexed; legume compressed, torulose, constricted between the seeds, falcate, 3-4-seeded, red, velutinous; all pubescence white.
Type locality: Esquintla. Guatemala.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality, and to us only from description.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
