Bauhinia wrayi
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Description
Tendrilled climber with slender branches.
Leaves entire to more or less deeply divided; stipules tiny, early caducous, 1-2 mm; petioles slender, 1-4 cm; lamina varying in shape, 2-9 cm long; 5-13-nerved; glabrous or pubescent.
Inflorescences lateral and terminal corymbs, often elongating during anthesis, up to 10 cm; pedicels filiform, 3-4 cm; bracts subulate, 1-2 mm; bracteoles tiny, inserted about the middle of the pedicel.
Petals yellowish-white with a red patch at the claw, subequal, obovate to lanceolate, with crenulate margin, 10-11 mm, with a distinct claw, usually pubescent on the dorsal side.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments glabrous, c. 5 mm; anthers ellipsoid; reduced stamens with small anthers and staminodes 5-7, shorter than or equal to the fertile ones.
Ovary distinctly stipitate, c. 2 mm, glabrous or, rarely, hairy along the suture or all over; stipe c. 1 mm, with a tuft of ferrugineous hairs at base; style c. 1.5 mm; stigma small, capitate.
Seeds 1-3, broadly ovate, compressed.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), C present, S part present
Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (C and S part), Borneo.