Bauhinia teijsmanniana var. lingua
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Description
Tendrilled liana;, young branches velvety rusty tomentose.
Leaves: stipules obovate with truncate apex, hairy along the margin, 4-10 mm, early caducous; petiole 3-6 cm, brownish pubescent; lamina broadly ovate to suborbicular, 8-10(-17) cm across; 11- 13-nerved; bifid 1/3-1/2; tip of lobes obtuse or acute (to acuminate), base cordate; upper surface glabrous, lower brownish pubescent to subglabrous.
Inflorescences lateral and terminal, glabrescent to ± brown velvety corymbs; pedicels 2-4 cm long; bracts narrow lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 mm, pubescent, early caducous; bracteoles smaller, subulate, inserted near the base of the pedicel.
Petals white turning yellow, unequal, 25-35 mm long, narrowly obovate-lanceolate with broad rounded apex, tapering into the 4-6 mm long claw, outside mostly appressed brownish silky hairy towards the base and along the median line, sometimes only sparsely hairy.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments glabrous, 22- 25 mm; anthers 5-8 mm; staminodes 2, subulate, 6-10 mm, sometimes also 1-2 minute ones, c. 1 mm, between the fertile ones.
Ovary rusty hairy, on a short, glabrous stipe; style usually glabrous; stigma peltate, 2-3 mm diam.
Seeds 4-8, flat, 1.5-2.5 cm diam.