O Tempo e a Restinga - Time and Restinga

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“caule repente adscendente, foliolis subrotundis nitidis, racemis folio longioribus, leguminibus
oblongis breviter acuminatis...in arenosis maritimis Jamaïcae...Corollae sanguineo-caerulescentes
subcoriaceae.”

Augustin Pyramo de Candolle, 1825

CANAVALIA OBTUSIFOLIA DC. prorepens; glabra v. junior minute sericeo-pubescens; foliolis
obovatis orbiculatisve, obtusissimis; calycis labio superiore bilobo, tubo multo breviore, inferiore
trilobo; carina erostri.
CAULE saepius pluripedales, prostrati at non radicantes crassiusculi, uti tota planta glabri v.
juventute pilis brevibus appressis subsericei. PETIOLI crassiusculi, 2-4 pollicares, FOLIOLA vulgo
2-3 pollicaria, crassiuscula, obtusissima v. retusa, rarius tenuiora, 4-5 pollicaria, rarissime acumen
brevissimum exserentia. RACEMI ½ - 1 pedales. FLORES quam in C. gladiata paullo minores, rosei
v. miniati. CALYCIS labium superius vix inferiore duplo longius v. interdum id parum superans, lobis
late rotundatis; inferioris lobi breves lati. PETALORUM forma C. gladiatae, sed carina magis incurva.
LEGUMEN semper multo minus vidi, circa 3 poll. longum, 9 lin. latum, alis angustis suturae appro-
ximatis. SEMINA 2-3.

Prancha representativa de Canavalia rosea

Representative board of Canavalia rosea

Martius, 1859

Habitat ad littora maris Pharmacopoli-

tana, fl oret Aug.: Vell.; in arenosis maritimis

regionum tropicarum utriusque orbis frequens;

in Brasiliae maritimis legerunt Pohl, A. de St.

Hilaire, Gaudichaud, Mart. Herb. Fl. Br. n. 1133.

alliique.

Carolus Fridericus Philippus de Martius, 1859