Bauhinia dolichocalyx
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Description
Tree up to 25 m high, dbh 20 cm; bark slightly pustular; inner bark orange-brown; wood cream-coloured.
Leaves: stipules very early caducous, small (?), not seen; petiole slender, 2-3 cm; lamina ovate, entire, acuminate, base cordate to truncate; nerves 5-7 with prominent side branches; upper surface first finely pubescent, later glabrous, lower brownish pubescent when young.
Inflorescences terminal panicles, axis densely brown- ish pubescent; pedicels few mm or flowers almost sessile; bracts ovate acute, c. 2 mm long, early caducous; bracteoles similar, inserted just below the hypanthium.
Petals white, unequal, obovate, 8-10 cm long, up to 6 cm broad, distinctly clawed; claw 3-10 mm long.
Stamens 10 fertile; fila- ments glabrous, 4 cm long or longer; anthers linear, 10-14 mm long.
Ovary long stipi- tate; stipe 4-5 cm long, glabrous as the ovary and style; style 2-2.5 cm; stigma small, capitate.
Seeds 2-7, compressed, shining, c. 3 cm diam.