Dalbergia ecastaphyllum |
Dalbergia brownei |
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coinvine |
Brown's Indian rosewood, Browne's Indian rosewood |
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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. |
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Dalbergia ecastaphyllum |
Dalbergia brownei |
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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 |
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa |
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies |
Discussion | Dalbergia brownei is listed as endangered in Florida. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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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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