Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chamaecrista brevipes (DC.) Greene, Pittonia 4:31. 1899
Cassia brevipes DC; Collad. Hist. Cass. 119. 1816.
A shrub, 0.3-1.5 m. high, much branched, the twigs and petioles pilose-tomentose. Stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate, many-nerved, 4—6 mm. long; petiolar gland flat or concave, sessile, about I mm. long or smaller; leaflets 2 pairs, oblong, glabrous or puberulent, coriaceous, 1-2 cm. long, strongly several-nerved, the pinnate venation narrowly ascending, the apex obtuse or acutish; pedicels short, little longer than the petioles; bractlets ovate; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, or the outer ones obtuse, 6-S mm. long, glabrous; petals about as long as the sepals, or longer; legume oblong, densely appressed-villous, about 2 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, short-tipped.
Type locality: "Panamaide."
Distribution: Costa Rica; Panama; Venezuela; British Guiana.
- 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
