Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae.
Phylogenetic Number: 1.4.32.
Tribe: Detarieae.
Group: Crudia.
Species Studied - Species in Genus: 1 studied; 1 in genus.
Fruit: A legume; unilocular; 9.5–11.5 cm long; 3.5–5 cm wide; 0.3–0.5 cm thick; 2–9 times longer than wide; with deciduous androecial sheath; with deciduous corolla; with persistent calyx, or deciduous calyx; with calyx shorter than fruit; without orifice formed by curving of fruit or fruit segments; straight; not plicate; not twisted; asymmetrical; dolabriform; with 1 straight and 1 curved suture; widest near apex; not inflated; compressed; with beak; hooked; with solid beak the same color and texture as fruit; tapered at apex to short tapered at apex; aligned with longitudinal axis of fruit to oblique with longitudinal axis of fruit; rounded at base; oblique with longitudinal axis of fruit; with the apex and base uniform in texture; leathery; seed chambers externally invisible; margin not constricted; margin without sulcus; margin embellished; margin with thickened sutural areas; wing(s) absent; stipitate; with the stipe 6–7 mm long. Replum invisible. Epicarp dull; monochrome; brown; with surface texture uniform; glabrous; eglandular; without spines; not smooth; with elevated features; weakly veined; reticulately veined; not tuberculate; striate; not exfoliating; without cracks; without embedded tissue, much thicker than epicarp, running from base to apex. Mesocarp present; thick; surface not veined; 1-layered; without balsamic vesicles; without fibers; without reniform canals; solid; coriaceous. Endocarp present; visible; dull; opaque; monochrome; black; smooth (assumed from a small area, several squaer millimeters); coriaceous; exfoliating (assumed from a small area, several square millimeters); remaining fused to mesocarp and epicarp; without wings; entire.
Authors: J.H. Kirkbride, Jr., C.R. Gunn, A.L. Weitzman, M.J. Dallwitz, K.R. Thiele
Content last updated April 2003
Released April 2024 on idtools.org
