Caesalpinia bonduc
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Description
Liana up to 15 m.
Branchlets usually armed with straight or recurved prickles (1-10 mm).
Leaves: rachis 15-80 cm long; pinnae 6-11 pairs, 8-20 cm long, rachis sometimes prolonged to 3 mm.
Stipules subpersistent, pinnately or 3-5-lobed, lobes ovate, c. 5-20 mm long.
Inflorescences supra-axillary and terminal, racemose or paniculate, 30-60 cm long, the rachis densely hairy; bracts lanceolate, 8-15 by c. 1 mm; pedicels 2-6 mm, articulated 0.5-1 mm below the flower.
Flowers unisexual, buds ovoid, pubescent.
Sepals 7-10 by 2-3 mm.
Petals 7-10 by 2-3 mm, clawed (claw c. 3 mm long).
Stamens: filaments 6-10 mm; anthers c. 1.25 mm long; staminodes in female flowers c. 6 mm.
Seeds 1 or 2, ovoid to globular, 15-20 mm long, smooth, grey, with parallel lines concentric with the hilum.