Diagnostic description ²

Caesalpinia portoricensis (Britton & Wilson) Alain, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 90: 187. 1973.

Fig. 95. G-I

Basionym: Guilandina portoricensis Britton & Wilson

Scandent shrub attainig 6 m in length. Stems cylindrical, striate, puberulent, unarmed. Leaves bipinnate, paripinnate, ca. 15 cm long; pinnae 3-5 pairs, opposite; leaflets 3-5 pairs per pinna, opposite, 1-2 cm long, ovate or broadly elliptical, chartaceous, glabrous, the apex rounded or emarginate, the base unequal, rounded on one side, obtuse on the other, the margins entire; petioles and rachis puberulent, with some spines; stipules deciduous. Legumes broadly oblong, 5-6 × cm, semi-woody, unarmed, dehiscent along one suture. Seeds ovoid or rounded, 1.5-2 cm long, dark brown to almost black, shiny, not striate.

Phenology: Collected in fruit during March.

Status: Endemic, very rare.

Distribution ³

Distribution: Known from a single collection from Salinas de Guánica.

Public Forest: Guánica.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10063551
2. (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435333
3. (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435826

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