Caesalpinia pulcherrima
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Description
Shrub or small tree, up to 5 m tall, glabrous; branchlets unarmed or with a few straight prickles.
Leaves: rachis 20-40 cm; pinnae 5-9 pairs, often with a small subulate stipel (c. 0.5 mm long) between the pair.
Stipules subulate, c. 2 mm long, caducous.
Inflores- cences axillary and terminal, racemose, sometimes paniculate, 20-50 cm long, rachis glabrous, rarely with a few straight prickles; bracts c. 5 by 0.5 mm; pedicels 70-100 mm, not articulated.
Sepals 10-15 by 5-7 mm, ciliate.
Petals yellow or flame-red, or red with a yellow margin, 10-25 by 6-8 mm, clawed (claw up to 15 mm long).
Stamens very far exserted; filaments 55-75 mm; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous.
Seeds slightly rectangular, 8-10 by 6-8 mm, black, dull.