Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Piptadenia flava (Spreng.) Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 30: 371. 1875.
ylcacfo/a™ Spreng.; DC. Prodr. 2: 469. 1825.
Piptadenia hplocarpa Rose. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 325. 1895.
Mimosa biucragenia B. L. Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 43: 23. 1907.
A shrub or small tree, 3-5 m. high, the twigs prickly, puberulent when young. Petioles 1-4 cm. long; rachis pubescent or glabrate, sparingly prickly or unarmed; pinnae 8-13 pairs; leaflets 12-25 pairs, linear, glabrous, acute or acutish, 5-10 mm. long, more or less distinctly pinnately veined; spikes axillary and in terminal panicles, 4-8 cm. long; legxime broadly linear, 5-9 cm. long, 10-18 mm. wide, its base cuneate.
Type locality: Santa Marta, Colombia.
Distribution: Colima to Panama. Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad.
- 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
