Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Senegalia purpusii (Brand.) Britton & Rose
Acacia Purpusii Brand. Univ. Cal. Pub. Bot. 3: 380. 1909.
A shrub, the young twigs more or less prickly. Petiole short, pubescent, bearing a smal cup-shaped gland; rachis puberulent, sometimes prickly; pinnae 2-4 pairs; leaflets 12-14 pairs, oblong, mucronate, 9 mm. wide, glabrous above, sparingly appressed-pubescent and reticulate-veined beneath; peduncles 2-2.5 cm. long, stout; flowers capitate; calyx and corolla pubescent; ovary and young legume pubescent; mature legume glabrate, somewhat curved, oblong, mucronate, short-stipitate, 8-10 cm. long, 2-2.3 cm, wide, the base rounded.
Type locality: Near San Luis Tultitlanapa, Puebla. Disti^bution : Known only from the type locality and vicinity.
- 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
