(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Genus
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SCHIZOLOBIUM Vogel
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Linnaea 11:399. 1837.
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Description
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Tall, unarmed trees, the leaves large, bipinnate, with numerous, small leaflets. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, racemose, or paniculate of several racemes; bracts small. Flowers yellow, perfect; calyx with a short, somewhat inequilateral tube, the lobes imbricate, longer than the tube, reflexed in anthesis; petals separate, im- bricate, narrowed baseward, subequal; stamens 10, free, subdeclinate, inserted with the petals on upper portion of calyx-tube; the anthers all similar, small, bilocular, versatile, dehiscent by longitudinal slits; ovary stocky, tomentose, short-stipitate, affixed basally on lower side to the calyx-tube; style about twice as long as the ovary; stigma terminal, minute. Legume flattened, coriaceous, tardily dehiscent, bearing a single seed in the expanded apical portion.
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Habit
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tree
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Note
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The genus seemingly consists of a single species.
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