Bauhinia glauca
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Description
Tendrilled liana; young branches reddish pubescent, soon glabrous.
Leaves: stipules linear, c. 4 mm long; petiole sparsely pubescent, 2-4 cm; lamina broadly ovate to ro- tundate, often broader than long, 4-6(-9) cm diam.; 7-11-nerved; bifid 1/3-1/2 with narrow sinus; tip of lobes obtuse; base truncate to cordate; upper surface glabrous, lower sparsely pubescent.
Inflorescences lateral, short, dense corymbs; pedicel slender, 1-2 cm, ± rusty pubescent; bracts linear, 5 mm long; bracteoles similar, inserted near the middle of the pedicel.
Petals white, subequal, obovate, 8-12 mm long including the 2-3 mm long claw, ± hairy outside.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments glabrous, as long as petals; anthers dark red, ellipsoid, 2 mm long; staminodes 7: 2 between the stamens, 3 mm long, 5 short, subulate, connate at base.
Ovary glabrous, 8 mm long, shortly stipitate; style very short; stigma obliquely peltate.
Seeds 10-25, ovate, 5-8 mm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), From India, through Burma, to S China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam present, Indonesia present
From India, through Burma, to S China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam; Malesia: Malay Peninsula and Indonesia.. In the northern part of the area it is represented by subsp. tenuiflora (Watt ex C.B.Clarke) K. & S.S.Larsen, in the southern part, i.e. S India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java, by subsp. glauca.
Citation
Gagnep. 1913 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 138
Larsen & Larsen 1984 – In: Fl. Thailand: 41
Craib 1928 – In: Fl. Siam. Enum.: 521
Backer & Bakh.f 1964 – In: Fl. Java: 534.
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 629
Prain 1897 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 186
Larsen & Larsen 1980 – In: Fl. Camb., Laos & Vietnam: 183
Wunderlin, Larsen & Larsen 1987 – In: Biol. Skr. Dan. Vid. Selsk.: 20.
Miq. 1855 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 68
Larsen & Larsen 1973 – In: Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc.: 10
Baker 1878 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 282
de Wit 1956 – In: Reinwardtia: 489
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 633.