Caesalpinia tortuosa
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Description
Liana, shrub or small tree, up to 10 m tall; branchlets glabrous, with recurved prickles.
Leaves: rachis 30-45(-70) cm, hairy, pinnae 7-20 pairs, hairy, unarmed.
Stipules absent.
Inflorescences (supra)axillary and terminal, often paniculate, 20-60 cm long, the rachis pubescent, with recurved prickles, sometimes unarmed; bracts 2 by 1 mm, hairy; pedicels 8-15 mm, hairy, articulated at the base.
Flower buds glabrous or hairy in the basal part.
Sepals 3- 10 by 6-7 mm, usually ciliate.
Petals 4-10 by 6-12 mm, clawed (claw up to 8 mm long).
Stamens slightly exserted; filament 10-14 mm; woolly over about half their length; anthers 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous.
Seeds subglobose, c. 10 mm in diam.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Borneo (Kalimantan present); Malaya (Singapore present), Burma present, East- & Westcoast present, Hongkong present, Johore present, Penang I. present, W & E regions present
India (Assam), China (Hongkong), Burma; in Malesia: Sumatra (East- & Westcoast), Malay Peninsula (Johore, Penang I.), Singapore, Borneo (Kalimantan), Java (W & E regions)