Acacia palawanensis
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Description
Scandent shrub or woody climber, 6 m long or more, stem up to 7.5 cm in diameter.
Branchlets terete, armed by recurved prickles up to 1.2 mm long and with longitudinal dark grey lines with minute light-coloured transverse lenticels, ultimate parts of branches and inflorescences densely patently puberulous, and with light red sessile glands, soon glabrescent.
Leaves evenly scattered along the stem;
Stipules oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or subfalcate, 4-8 by 12- 3 mm, base symmetrically subcordate.
Inflorescences consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into patendy puberulous terminal panicles;
Flowers whitish, male or bisexual, pentamerous, glabrous.
Stamens 4.5-5.5 mm.
Ovary glabrous, 1 mm, stipe 1.5 mm.
Seeds very dark brown, irregularly shaped, broadly oblong, 8-11 by 5.5-6 by 1-1.5 mm;