Haematoxylum
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Description
Tree or shrub, sometimes with spiny branchlets.
Leaves spiral, paripinnate or partially bipinnate.
Stipules caducous.
Inflorescences crowded on short shoots, axillary, terminal, racemose.
Flowers small, bisexual; bracts minute, absent at anthesis; bracteoles none.
Petals 5, imbricate, subequal.
Stamens 10, fertile, free; filaments pilose at base; anthers introrse.
Ovary shortly stipitate, free, 2- or 3-ovuled; style filiform; stigma small, terminal.
Seeds transversely oblong, exalbuminous.