Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Guilandina portoricensis Britton & Wilson, Sci. Surv Porto Rico & Virgin Ids. 5: 380. 1924.
Stems unarmed, up to 6 m. long, the twigs puberulent. Stipules none; leaves about 1.5 dm. long, the rachis puberulent; pinnae 3-5 pairs, bearing a few short prickles; leaflets 3-5 pairs, oval-orbicular, 1-2 cm. long, chartaceous, inequilateral, light green, dull, glabrous, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base ; legume 5-6 cm. long, about 4 cm. wide, unarmed or with a few short marginal prickles; seeds dark brown to nearly black, 1.5-2 cm. long, shining, smooth, not horizontally striate.
Type locality: Salinas de Giianica, Porto Rico. DisTRiBrriON: Known only from the type locality.
- citação bibliográfica
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
