Bauhinia foraminifer var. foraminifer
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Description
Low, scrambling, tendrilled climber; young shoots slender, glabrous with short tendrils.
Leaves consisting of two free or almost free leaflets; stipules ovate, acute, c. 1.5 mm; petioles glabrescent, very slender to filiform, 1.5-3 cm, continuing in a short mucro; leaflets ovate-oblong, asymmetrical, tips rounded to subacute, usually 3-nerved, 2.5-6.5 by 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous on upper surface, lower often glaucous, sparsely brownish to reddish pubescent, more dense on the nerves.
Inflorescences lateral and terminal corymbs with a 2-6 cm long, glabrous axis; pedicels glabrous, filiform, 3-5 cm long; bracts triangular, 1.3 mm; bracteoles smaller, inserted about the middle of the pedicel.
Petals white, lanceolate to obovate, with undulate margin, 12-15 mm long with a distinct, 2-3 mm long claw; outside sparsely reddish hairy at the median zone.
Stamens 3 fertile; filaments glabrous, 5-7 mm; anthers broader than long, 1.5 mm; staminodes 4-7, filiform, varying in length, shorter than or as long as the fertile stamens.
Ovary glabrous, c. 3 mm; stipe short, 1-2 mm, with a few hairs at base; style glabrous, as long as ovary; stigma small, peltate.