Description ⁶

Large shrub or small tree, 1.5-3.5 m tall, branches hairy. Stipules 10-25 mm long, broadly ovate, caudate-acuminate. Leaves 13-30 cm long, rachis produced into a short spur, glands absent or obscure. Leaflets 8-16 pairs, 2-6 cm long, 0.7-2 cm wide, oblong, mucronate, hairy on both the surfaces. Raceme axillary, pedunculate, 12-50 cm long. Bracts 12-15 mm long. Sepals c. 12 mm long, narrowly obovate. Petals 1.5-2.5 cm long, claw 1 mm long. Stamens 10, 2 lower large, fertile, 3 upper staminodial, short and sterile and 5 medium fertile. Fruit stipitate, flat, 7.5-10 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, 9-16 seeded, glabrescent.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Steven Severinghaus, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/horsepunchkid/8010919074/
2. Michael Kesl, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/46554.jpg
3. Tracey Slotta, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://plants.usda.gov/gallery/large/sedi8_001_lhp.jpg
4. (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/50142.jpg
5. (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/50467.jpg
6. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4969757

More Info

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