| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Caesalpinioidae |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high, bark dark brown to black; blaze pink-red; branchlets solid, sometimes swollen, pubescent when young, glabrous at maturity, lenticellate. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipules 1-2 x 0.25-0.5 cm, lateral, linear, prominently parallel veined, glabrous; rachis 20-40 mm long, obscurely winged, shallowly grooved above, tomentose, pulvinate; leaflets (2)-4, opposite; lamina 7-20 x 2.2-8 cm, obovate oblong, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base unequal, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-13 pairs, pinnate, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 2-3 cm long, white, in axillary pendulous, brown pubescent, racemes; pedicels 4-5 mm long, pilose; petals 3, white, pink or orange, ovate, shortly clawed, veined, glabrous; stamens 5, perfect, free, deep pinkish; filaments 2 cm long, glabrous; anthers 2-3 mm long, versatile; ovary 5 mm long, half inferior, stipitate, obliquely linear, ovules 3-5,densely pubescent; style filiform, 10 mm long, pilose at base; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod 5-10 x 2-4 cm, dolabriform, brown pubescent when young; seeds 3-4. |