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Diphysa carthagenensis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 28. 1760
Diphysa robinioides Millsp. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 1: 367. 1898. Not D. robinioides Benth. 1853.
A tree, up to 20 m. high; young branches glabrous or sparingly strigose, slender; stipules subulate, 3 mm. long; leaves 4-10 cm. long; rachis glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 9-19, oblong, 7-15 mm. long, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded to retuse at the apex, glabrous, green on both sides; racemes 3-5 cm. long, 1-4-flowered; bracts oblong, 2 mm. long, caducous; bractlets oblanceolate, obtuse, 3 mm. long; calyx glabrous; tube (including the hypanthium) 5 mm. long; uppermost two lobes ovate, rounded or obtuse at the apex. 2 mm. long, the lateral ones lanceolate, acute, the lowest narrowly lanceolate, 3 mm. long; corolla about 1 cm. long; pod about 4 cm. long, and d 1.5 m. broad, wrinkled, glabrous; stipe about 5 mm. long.
Type locality: Carthagena, Colombia.
Distribution: Yucatan; also in Colombia and Venezuela.
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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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