Albizia rufa
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Description
Climber or trailing shrub, up to 10 m.
Branchlets terete, reddish tomentose in the distal parts, glabrescent, armed by recurved prickles, 0.5-1.5 cm, each emerging from the bases of the leaf-scars, caducous.
Leaves:
Stipules lanceolate-linear, caducous, c. 3 by 1 mm, reddish tomentose.
Inflorescences composed of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into terminal, red-brown tomentose-floc- culose panicles, peduncles solitary or a few together, 0.7-2 cm, with glomerules of 15-25 sessile flowers.
Flowers dimorphic, tetramerous or pentamerous, bisexual.
Stamens few, c. 12- 20 mm, white (or pink in the proximal part), tube equalling the corolla-tube.
Ovary c. 1 mm, with a few curly hairs, stipe c. 1 mm.
Seeds ovate-oblong, strongly flattened, c. 8 by 5 mm;