Caesalpinia scortechinii
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Description
Liana or shrub; branchlets shortly pubescent or glabrous, with a few small, recurved prickles.
Leaves: rachis 13- 25 cm; pinnae 5-8 pairs, unarmed.
Stipules c. 1 mm long, 2 mm wide, appressed, caducous.
Inflorescences supra-axillary and terminal, paniculate, up to c. 30 cm long, rachis puberulous or glabrous; bracts subulate, c. 3 mm long, hairy; pedicels 3-5 mm, articulated c. 0.5 mm below the top.
Sepals almost glabrous, 5-6 by 2 mm.
Petals yellow, oblong, 4-6 by 2-3 mm, shortly clawed (claw up to 2 mm long); filaments c. 7 mm; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, villose.
Seeds almost reniform in outline, flat, c. 18 by 15 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Queensland (Queensland present), Central Provinces present, Southern Highlands present, Western present
Australia (Queensland, New South Wales); in Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Western, Southern Highlands and Central Provinces).