Bauhinia glabrifolia var. maritima
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Description
Slender, tendrilled climber, young branches reddish brown, later glabrous.
Leaves: stipules lanceolate, falcate, c. 5 mm, with reddish hairs outside; petiole up to 9 cm, glabrescent; lamina ovate, up to 18.5 by 15 cm, bifid, 9-nerved.
Inflorescences lateral, dense, compound corymbs with short, light brown, tomentose axis; pedicel up to 17 mm long; bracts triangular, 4-5 mm long, ± persistent; bracteoles setaceous, 3-4 mm, ± persistent, inserted about the middle of the pedicel.
Petals yellowish white, subequal, obovate to spathulate, 6-8 mm long including the short claw; outside hairy at base and on the upper central part, glabrous towards apex.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments white, 10-12 mm long; anthers c. 2 mm; staminodes absent.
Ovary c. 4 mm with a short stipe; style 4-5 mm; stigma small, capitate; sutures of ovary and stipe densely hairy.
Seeds 3-5, flat, oblong, 21 by 12 mm, dark brown.