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Comprehensive Description

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Inga tonduzii Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 44: 112. 1907
A tree with a round top, the twigs covered with dense brown spreading hairs. Stipules 10-12 mm. long, deltoid, acuminate, persistent; rachis of leaf broadly winged, bearing stipitate glands between the leaflets; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, elliptic, 12-17 cm. long, obtuse at base, acuminate, long-pilose on both sides; peduncles axillary, solitary or in pairs, 2 cm. long, pilose; flowers in spikes 2-3 cm. long, subtended by linear-lanceolate persistent bractlets 7-10 mm. long; calyx 10 mm. long, hairy; corolla 27 mm. long, villous; legume 17-23 cm. long, 3.5-4 cm. broad, clothed with brown spreading hairs.
Type locality: Las Vueltas, Costa Rica. DisTRLBUTioN : Known only from the type locality.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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