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Brown's Indian rosewood, Browne's Indian rosewood

Habit Shrubs or trees, to 4(–6) m; stems sometimes scandent. Shrubs or trees, to 10 m; stems often somewhat 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.

unifoliolate;

stipules deltate-ovate, 1–2 × 1 mm, apex acute;

petiole 0.5–1.5 cm, glabrous or puberulent;

petiolules 2–3 mm, glabrous or pilose;

leaflet blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, 40–80 × 20–40 mm, base cordate to rounded, apex usually acute, sometimes acuminate or obtuse, surfaces lustrous, glabrous or lightly appressed-pubescent, hairs minute.

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.

corymbose-paniculate, axes pilose becoming glabrate;

bracts subpersistent, blade deltate, 1–2 × 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse;

bracteoles caducous, blade elliptic-ovate, to 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse.

Pedicels

1–1.5 mm.

1.5–2 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.

calyx 4 mm, base slightly narrowed, often subsericeous, sometimes glabrate, abaxial lobe 1 mm longer than lateral lobes, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apex, longer than lateral;

corolla usually white, sometimes pinkish, 8–10 mm;

stamens 10, monadelphous;

filaments alternately long and short;

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.

stalk 3 mm;

ellipsoid to oblong, 15–50 × 10 mm, base cuneate to rounded, apex usually obtuse, surface lustrous, glabrous.

Seed(s)

1.

1–4.

2n

= 20.

Dalbergia ecastaphyllum

Dalbergia brownei

Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug. Flowering May.
Habitat Hammocks, coastal thickets, wooded dunes, swamps, shores, margins of mangroves. Hammocks and lagoons.
Elevation 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa
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from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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Discussion

Dalbergia brownei is listed as endangered in Florida.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalbergia Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalbergia
Sibling taxa
D. brownei, D. sissoo
D. ecastaphyllum, D. sissoo
Synonyms Hedysarum ecastaphyllum, Ecastaphyllum brownei, Pterocarpus ecastaphyllum Amerimnon brownei
Name authority (Linnaeus) Taubert in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 101–102[III,3]: 335. (1894) — (as ecastophyllum) (Jacquin) Schinz: Bull. Herb. Boissier 6: 731. (1898)
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