Caesalpinia digyna
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Description
Liana, scandent shrub, or small tree, up to 10 m, young parts densely rusty-brown hairy; branchlets armed with recurved prickles (4-5 mm long).
Leaves: rachis 17-23 cm; pinnae 8-13 pairs, 4-5 cm, unarmed.
Stipules subulate, to 3 mm long, slightly hairy, caducous.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, paniculate, 30-40 cm long, the rachis glabrous or hairy, with a few prickles in the basal part; bracts somewhat boat-shaped, 4 by 0.4 mm, hairy; pedicels spreading, slender, 15-25 mm, glabrous or with a few hairs, articulated at the base.
Flower buds glabrous.
Sepals 3-8 by 2-5 mm.
Petals 5-8 by 3-8 mm, shortly clawed (claw up to 2 mm long).
Stamens slightly exserted; filaments c. 12 mm; anthers 1.5 mm, glabrous or with a few hairs.
Ovary 3-4 mm long, glabrous or silky-hairy along the sutures, 2-4-ovuled; style 6-8 mm, glabrous; stigma 0.3 mm in diam., short-hairy along the margin.
Seeds subglobose, 10-12 mm in diam, dark brown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia present); India present; Laos (Laos present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Burma present, C present, E present, Kangean Is. present, NW Malay Peninsula present, Nepal present, Palembang present, also Madura present
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand.. In Malesia: Sumatra (Palembang), NW Malay Peninsula, Java (C and E, also Madura and Kangean Is.), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali)