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Dalbergia ecastaphyllum

coinvine
Habit Shrubs or trees, to 4(–6) m; stems sometimes scandent.
Leaves

unifoliolate;

stipules lanceolate, 10 × 2 mm, apex acuminate;

petiole 0.4–0.6 cm, puberulent to sericeous;

petiolules 3–5 mm, puberulent;

leaflet blades elliptic to ovate, (25–)50–80 × (20–)50–80 mm, base rounded to subcordate, apex abruptly narrowed to obtuse tip, surfaces sometimes discolorous, sublustrous, subsericeous, becoming moderately appressed-pubescent or glabrous.
Inflorescences

racemose in fascicles, axes pilose;

bracts caducous, blade deltate, 1 × 0.5 mm, apex acute;

bracteoles subpersistent, blade deltate-ovate, 1 × 0.3–0.5 mm, apex acute.
Pedicels

1–1.5 mm.
Flowers

calyx 3–3.5 mm, base rounded, pilose or subsericeous, lobes subequal, barely distinct from tube, deltate;

corolla usually white, sometimes pinkish, 8–9 mm;

stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous (5 + 5);

filaments nearly equal;

pistil glabrous.
Legumes

stalk 3 mm;

subglobose to subreniform, 20–35 × 15–20 mm, base rounded, apex rounded, surface sericeous becoming appressed-pubescent or glabrescent.
Seed

1.
2n

= 20.

Dalbergia ecastaphyllum
Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Hammocks, coastal thickets, wooded dunes, swamps, shores, margins of mangroves.
Elevation 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalbergia
Sibling taxa
D. brownei, D. sissoo
Synonyms Hedysarum ecastaphyllum, Ecastaphyllum brownei, Pterocarpus ecastaphyllum
Name authority (Linnaeus) Taubert in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 101–102[III,3]: 335. (1894) — (as ecastophyllum)
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