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| Distribution | Native from southern Arizona and southern Florida through Central America and the West Indies to northern Argentina.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Shrub or small tree, 2‒10 m tall; branches lepidote to puberulent.
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Leaves
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Leaves petiolate with (3‒)5‒7(‒9) leaflets, first pair of leaves on a new branch often simple; leaflets ovate-lanceolate to elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 2.4‒15 cm long, 1‒3 cm wide, progressively larger distally.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences a terminal or subterminal raceme. Flowers with elongate, cuplike calyx 0.3‒7 cm long, evenly 5 toothed, teeth ca. 1 mm long; corolla yellow with 7 reddish lines in the throat and 2 faint red lines on top of the throat ridges, 3.5‒6 cm long, 1.2‒2.4 cm wide at the mouth, glabrous externally, pubescent within, glandular hairs at the point of filament insertion and with a few twisted hairs in the sinus and on the throat ridges; nectary disc cupular pulvinate; ovules in 2 series per locule.
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Fruit
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Fruit linear, nearly terete when fresh, tapering at both ends, 7‒21 cm long, 0.5‒0.7 cm in diameter.
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Seeds
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Seeds 0.3‒0.5 cm long, 2.4‒2.7 cm wide, winged, wings hyaline membranous, sharply demarcated from the seed body.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 36, 40.
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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