Caesalpinia pubescens
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Description
Liana or scandent shrub (or tree ?), up to 10( — 15) m; branchlets with few recurved prickles.
Leaves: rachis 20-60 cm; pinnae 9-15 pairs.
Stipules acute, persistent, up to 2 by 0.5 mm, hairy.
Inflorescences axillary and terminal, racemose, rachis pubescent; bracts lanceolate, 5-10(-20) by 2-3(-4) mm (incl. the acuminate apex), pubescent; pedicels 20-35 mm, pubescent, articulated c. 3 mm below the top.
Flower buds almost globose, 7.5-10 mm in diam., pubescent.
Sepals 7-16 by 3-7 mm, pubescent on both surfaces.
Petals: standard with claw 3 by 0.5 mm, prolonged into a glabrous ligule, limb reniform to broadly ovate, 4-5 by c. 10 mm, margins hairy; the other petals with claw very short, hairy, limb suborbicular, 10-20 mm in diam., sometimes ciliate.
Stamens exserted; filaments 12-15 mm; anthers 2.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous.
Seeds compactly ar- ranged in the middle of the pod (number of seeds not countable from outside), ellipsoid in outline, 8-10 by 3-6 mm, brown, smooth.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present), Bangka present, C Luzon present, Flores present, Kangean Is. present, Lombok present, Peninsula present, SW present, Salajar present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, Wetar present, all parts present, also Madura present, coast of Annam present
N Vietnam (coast of Annam), Thailand (Peninsula); in Malesia: Sumatra (Bangka), Java (all parts, also Madura and Kangean Is.), Philippines (C Luzon), Celebes (SW and Salajar), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, Wetar)