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Piscidia 

Shrub, glabrate. Leaves imparipinnate; petioles ½"-1" long; leaflets entire, estipellate, 5-9, initally strigulose, ultimately glabrate; stipules caducous. Inflorenscence(s) intercalary panicles, with numerous flowers that appear before leaves; bracts and bracteoles small and caducous. Calyx with 4 short lobes; corolla papilionaceous, standard pubescent on back; androecium monadelphous; style glabrous. Legume exserted-stipitate, indehiscent, conspicuously 4-winged, subappressed-villosulous, ultimately breaking into irregular, several-seeded segments, marginally undulate, papery. Seeds several to numerous. Tropical America to S. Florida.

Plants listed in the manual include:

Piscidia piscipula

 

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