Delonix
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Description
Trees unarmed.
Leaves bipinnate.
Inflorescences axillary, racemose, aggregated near the ends of the branchlets; bracts small, inconspicuous, deciduous or persistent.
Flowers large, showy, bisexual.
Sepals 5, valvate.
Petals 5, obovate, transversely elliptic or reniform, conspicuously clawed.
Stamens 10, fertile, exserted; filaments pubescent or tomentose below; anthers dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscing.
Ovary shortly stipitate, pubescent to glabrous, many-ovuled; style about equalling the length of stamens.
Seeds transverse, hard, oblong-subcylindrical to oblong- elliptic.