Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pseudalbizzia berteriana (Balbis) Britton & Rose
Acacia Berleriana Ba.his: DC. Prodr. 2: 470. 1825.
Ingafragrans Macf. Fl. Jam. 1: 309. 1837.
Pithecolobium Berlerianiim Benth. Lend. Journ. Bot. 3: 220. 1844.
Pithecolobium fragrans 'BenXh. oc. c\.. 1844.
Acacia Balbisii Sprung. Syst. i: 140. 1825.
Acacia littoralis A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 1: 467. 1845.
Albizzia Berteriana Maza, Dice. Bot. 10. 1889.
Fetiilleea Berteroana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 184. 1891.
A tree 6-10 m. high, the twigs, petioles, leaf-rachis, and peduncles glabrous or puberulent. Petioles 5-10 cm. long, bearing an oblong gland above the base; pinnae 6-15 pairs, with a small orbicular gland between the upper pairs; leaflets 15-40 pairs, linear or linear-oblong, 5-8 mm. long, subchartaceous, inequilateral, bright green and lustrous above, pale green and dull beneath, glabrous, obtuse or acutish; flowers capitate; heads numerous, small, globose; calyx 1.5 mm. long; corolla about 3 mm. long; stamen-tube included; legume stipitate, puberulent, 7-12 cm. long, 10-17 mm. wide, the slender stipe 6-10 mm. long; seeds suborbicular, compressed.
Type locality: Santo Domingo. Distribution: Jamaica; Cuba; Hispaniola.
- 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
