| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Caesalpinioidae |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Shrubs to small trees, 4-6 m high; bark grayish-black, coarsely fissured, branchlets light brown, glabrous, solid, sometimes swollen. Leaves alternate, pinnately 4-foliolate, subsessile, up to 25 cm long; lamina 8.5-16 x 2.5- 5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate at apex, inequilateral at base; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, prominently reticulate below, dark green above and pale beneath, the margins entire, glabrous, young leaves drooping, coppery brown, brownish pubescent beneath, glabrous above; stipules lanceolate, Inflorescence erect, 3-7 cm long, axillary racemes, brown pubescent; pedicels 5-7 mm long, pilose, acute, 3 x 2 mm, with a gland at the middle, pubescent;. Petals 3, bright crimson-red, obovate, 0.6-0.8 cm long, clawed, claws ca 1.5 mm long, prominently nerved, glabrous. Stamens 5, fertile, alternating with 5 short, globose staminodes, the staminal filaments 11 mm long, crimson red, stout, glabrous; anthers versatile, 2 x 1.25 mm, oblong. Ovary 5 mm long, stipitate, stipe 2 mm long, obliquely ellipsoid, densely pubescent, 2-ovuled; style 1 cm long, slender, pilose towards base; stigma capitate. Pods 3.5-4 x 1.5-2 cm, dolabriform, brown pubescent when young; seeds 1or 2, 0.5 x 0.5 cm, brownish |