Caesalpinia furfuracea
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Description
Liana or straggling shrub; branchlets armed with recurved prickles (up to 5 mm long).
Leaves: rachis 25-30 cm long; pinnae 7 or 8 pairs, opposite or sometimes subopposite, 6-10 cm long, hairy.
Stipules persistent, scale-like, c. 0.5 by 1.5 mm.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, racemose and paniculate, up to c. 40 cm long, the rachis brown-hairy, glabrescent; bracts 8-12 by c. 0.5 mm, hairy; pedicels 20-25 mm, usually articulated 0.5-1.5 mm below the apex.
Flower buds glabrous.
Sepals 8-15 by 4-6 mm, mostly ciliate.
Petals glabrous: standard with claw 2-4(-6) mm long, limb arched, 3-4(-7) by 5-6 mm, reflexed, rounded at the apex; the other 4 petals with claw 2-4 mm long, the limb suborbicular, c. 15-20 mm in diam.
Stamens exserted; filaments 15-20 mm, hairy to about the middle; anthers 4 mm, glabrous.
Ovary 8 by 2 mm, glabrous, 4- or 5-ovuled; style c. 20 mm; stigma 1.5 mm in diam., shortly ciliate.
Seeds spaced, ellipsoid, c. 11 by 6 by 4 mm, brown, smooth, dull.