Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Diphysa macrocarpa Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb 23: 479. 1922.
Diphysa senuioides Benth.;Jienih. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddc-1. 1853: 12, in part, as to the fruit. 1853. A shrub or small tree; young branches densely glandularviscid and pilose; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; stipules subulate, 7-8 mm. long; rachis densely glandular-viscid; leaflets 25-33, oblong or elliptic, 10-15 mm. long, rounded at each end, mucronate, minutely hispidulousdenticulate on the margins, otherwise glabrous; peduncles and pedicels densely glandularviscid; bracts deciduous; bractlets oblong, 3 mm. long, hispidulous-ciliolate; calyx glabrous, except the ciliolate margins of the lobes; tube (including the hypanthium) 5 mm. long; upper two lobes ovate, obtuse, 2.5 mm. long, the lateral ones ovate, acute, the lowest one lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. long; pod 5-10 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, 3-4-seeded, more or less glandularhispid, the hairs with postulate bases, the stipe twice as long as the calyx.
Type locality: Tecozantla, Hidalgo. Distribution: Hidalgo.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY