Bauhinia decumbens
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Description
Low, scrambling, tendrilled climber; young shoots and tendrils densely appressed reddish pubescent, later glabrous; young stems grooved, lenticellate.
Leaves: stipules ovate to subrotundate, 3-4 mm across, reddish tomentose, up to 3.5 cm; lamina coriaceous, subrotundate, 4-6.5 cm across, bifid 1/3 with broad, triangular sinus; lobes triangular, acute; base deeply cordate; nerves 9-11; upper surface glabrous except for fine light brown pubescence on the nerves; lower densely coppery-red pubescent; margins often greyish pubescent.
Inflorescences lateral and terminal corymbs; all parts appressed, coppery pubescent; pedicels 2-3.5 cm; bracts linear, c. 2 mm long; bracteoles minute, inserted about the middle of the pedicel or above.
Petals yellow turning red, unequal, subrotundate to broadly ovate, with undulate margin, c. 1 cm long, the median one only 6 mm, outside densely reddish silky hairy; claw short but distinct.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments thickened towards the base, reddish hairy, c. 5 mm, glabrous in upper part; anthers c. 2 mm across, opening by a large, oblong pore; staminodes minute, 1 or 2 (or absent).
Ovary 3-4 mm, shortly stiped, densely coppery hairy; style 4-5 mm, hairy; stigma small, peltate.