Caesalpinia hymenocarpa
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Description
Liana or shrub; branchlets armed with recurved prickles.
Leaves: rachis 20-40 cm, shortly hairy; pinnae 6-10 pairs, 4-10 cm long, hairy, unarmed.
Stipules scale-like, c. 0.5 by 0.5-1 mm, appressed.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, paniculate, 30-50 cm long, the rachis pubescent; pedicels 8-15 mm, articulated 1-4 mm below the top.
Flower buds pubescent.
Sepals: lowest one deeply cu- cullate, 6-10 by 3.5-5 mm, ciliate.
Petals: standard with claw 3-4 mm long, prolonged into a ligule (c. 1 mm long) with a bilobed or erose apex, margins hairy, limb reniform to orbicular, 3-4 by 4-6 mm, reflexed; other petals with claw c. 0.5 by 1 mm, hairy or glabrous, the limb suborbicular to reniform, 7-10 by 10-11 mm.
Stamens exserted; filaments 7-17 mm; anthers 2.5 mm long, glabrous.
Seeds ellipsoid in outline, flat, 5-10 by 3-5 by 1 mm, dull.
Distribution
Alor present, Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia present); India present; Laos (Laos present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Flores present, Jakarta present, Sumbawa present, Tanimbar present, Timor present
Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, China, Thailand; in Malesia: Java (Jakarta), Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa, Flores, Alor, Timor, Tanimbar)