''Schleinitzia fosbergii'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name strand tangantangan. It is native to

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...

and other islands in the

Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands (; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: ''Manislan Mariånas'') are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, betw ...

chain.''Schleinitzia fosbergii''.
USDA NRCS Plant Guide. This plant is a large

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

generally growing up to 2 meters tall, sometimes becoming treelike and reaching 6 meters. The leaves are made up of a few pairs of pinnae, each of which is lined with several pairs of leaflets up to a centimeter long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a small globular cluster of tiny white five-petaled flowers which may be bisexual or functionally male. The fruit is a hard, flattened, brown or black pod up to 11 centimeters long. This plant grows at the coastline in maritime tropical climates. The temperature varies little. The most rainfall comes during July through October and annual precipitation usually amounts to 2000 to 2500 millimeters. There are

typhoon A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...

s most years. The plant grows on coastal strands, including oceanside cliffs, just beyond the high-tide mark. It receives heavy sea spray. It prefers well-drained alkaline substrates such as coral sands. This species is uncommon and may have been displaced in some habitats by the

introduced species An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there ...

Leucaena leucocephala ''Leucaena leucocephala'' is a small fast-growing Mimosoideae, mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia. Common names inc ...

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References

External links

USDA Plants Profile
{{Taxonbar, from=Q7431688 Mimosoids Flora of the Mariana Islands