Adenanthera microsperma
Content
Description
Tree to 30 m high, to 90 cm girth.
Branchlets glabrous or puberulous, glabrescent.
Leaves:
Stipules not seen.
Flowers yellowish white, turning dark yellow at anthesis.
Petals 2.5-3.5 mm, oblong, acute, usually glabrous but occasionally puberulous towards the apex.
Stamens 3-4.5 mm;
Ovary 1.6-2.2 mm, densely sericeous (with a few appressed hairs);
Seeds bright scarlet red, suborbicular to ellipsoid or broadly obovoid, 5.5-7(-8) by 4.5-7 by 4 mm, areole running c. 1 mm from the margin of the seed, open towards the hilum.
Distribution
Andaman Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, S China present, Timor present
Burma, S China, Indo-China, Thailand, Andaman Islands; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor), also cultivated.