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Comprehensive Description

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Eysenhardtia adenostylis Baillon, Adansonia 9: 239. 1870
Wiborgia adenostylis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 213. 1891.
Viborquia adenostylis Cockerell, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 97. 1908.
A much branched small tree, 3-5 m. high; stems grayish-brown, the young growth more or less cinereous-puberulent with appressed hairs; leaves 10-15 cm. long, spreading; stipules 2-3 mm. long, grayish, subulate; stipels subulate, 0.5-1 mm. long, shorter than the petiolules, more or less persistent; leaflets 37-49, oblong, 15-24 mm. long, dull-green above, glaucouswhitened beneath, finely puberulent above and especially so beneath, punctate beneath with minute brownish dots, obscurely reticulate above, firm; racemes 4-12 cm. long; bracts 1-2 mm. long, lanceolate, grayish, pubescent, deciduous before anthesis; calyx-tube 2.5 mm. long, obscurely glandular-dotted, canescent-puberulent, obscurely ridged below, split more deeply (but not to the middle) on the posterior side; lobes 0.2-0.3 mm. long, acutish, the three anterior slightly longer, pubescent, ciliate; petals 5 mm. long, firm, from less than twice to twice as long as the calyx, the standard broader, slightly emarginate-notched; style 3-4 mm. long, slightly pubescent, slightly upcurved at the apex, the gland at the curve large, conspicuous; pods 17-19 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, thin, pale-brown, glabrous, punctate distally with small glands, slightly upcurved at the apex, at maturity ascending, on pedicels 1-1.8 mm. long; seed 7 mm. long, oblanceolate, flat, smooth, olive-brown, with a narrow basal lobe, filling one third to two fifths the length of the pod.
Type locality: Guatemala.
Distribution: Woodlands or thickets, Guatemala.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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