Acacia kekapur
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Description
Scandent shrub or climber c. 10 m long, or rarely a tree to 15 m high, stem 3 cm in diameter.
Branchlets slightly angular, armed with 5 rows of up to 3 mm long, stout, recurved prickles, with longitudinal light brown and dark brown lines, densely red-brown glandular puberulous in the ultimate parts, soon glabrescent.
Leaves evenly scattered along the stem;
Stipules subcordate, ovate, or subreniform (rarely linear), 2-3 by 0.5- 2 mm, concave.
Inflorescence consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated in a terminal, red-brown haired panicle;
Flowers yellow, male and bisexual in the same glomerule, pentamerous.
Stamens 2.8-3.5 mm.
Ovary c. 1 mm, villous, stipe c. 1 mm.