Archidendron scutiferum
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Description
Shrub or medium-sized tree to 20 m high, d.b.h. up to 60 cm.
Branchlets terete, with low decurrent ridges from the leaf-scars, glabrous, inconspicuously lenticellate.
Leaves glabrous all over;
Inflorescences either ramiflorous below the leaves, or axillary at the distal leaves, puberulous to sericeous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules, aggregated into panicles to 25 by 12 cm;
Flowers pentamerous, bisexual.
Stamens white, 5-10 mm, tube equalling or longer than the corolla-tube.
Ovary solitary, glabrous, shortly stipitate (stipe up to 0.5 mm long).
Seeds steel-blue, covered by a bloom, ellipsoid to orbicular, 13-18 by 9- 10 mm.