Bauhinia fabrilis
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Description
Large, woody, tendrilled climber; young branches quadrangular, reddish brown woolly hairy, particularly along the edges.
Leaves: stipules large, lanceolate to slightly falcate, acuminate, 2-3 by c. 1 cm, when young outside densely rusty silky hairy, soon glabrescent, early caducous; petiole woolly pubescent, stout, 5-8 cm long; lamina broadly ovate, bifid 1/3-1/2; tip of lobes obtuse to acuminate; base deeply cordate, 15-22 by 14-16 cm; 15-17-nerved; upper surface glabrous, shining, lower sparsely pubescent to almost glabrous except for the nerves.
Inflorescences when young corymbose, axis eventually lengthening, up to 15 cm (or longer?), rusty tomentose, stout; pedicels 3-4 cm, rusty tomentose; bracts ovate-oblong, acute, 10-15 by 5-8 mm, silky hairy; bracteoles narrowly oblong, 8-12 mm, inserted just below or near the middle of the pedicels.
Petals white to yellow, spathulate, c. 2 cm long, densely brownish silky hairy outside, almost glabrous inside, gradually narrowed towards the 5-7 mm long claw.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments 4-5 cm long, glabrous; anthers 8-10 mm long; staminodes 2.
Ovary reddish brown silky pubescent, c. 10 mm, stipe 5-7 mm long, hairy as ovary; style c. 5 mm long, glabrous towards the medium- sized, peltate stigma.