Caesalpinia enneaphylla
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Description
Shrub or climber, up to 15 m; branchlets sparsely armed.
Leaves: rachis 20-40 cm; pinnae 8-12 pairs, 3-8 cm, shortly hairy to glabrous.
Stipules scale-like, c. 0.5 mm long, 1 mm wide.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, paniculate, 25-40 cm long, hairy to glabrous; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 by 0.25 mm, hairy; pedicels 10-20 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, articulated at 1-3 mm below the top.
Flower buds almost globose.
Sepals 4-6 by 2-4 mm, ciliate.
Petals: standard with claw 3 by 1 mm, prolonged into a ligule c. 1 mm long with a bilobed apex, the limb reflexed, suborbicular, 4-5 mm in diam.; other 4 petals with claw 1 by 1 mm, ciliate, the limb suborbicular, c. 5 mm in diam.
Stamens exserted; filaments c. 10 mm; anthers 1.5-2 mm, glabrous.
Seeds ellipsoid, flat, c. 7 by 5 by 2 mm, brown, smooth.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: India present; Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Burma present, Pangkadjene present, Priangan present, Rembang present, Semarang present
India, China, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, China; in Malesia: Java (Priangan, Rembang, Semarang), Celebes (Pangkadjene)