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3. Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alstonwfo-0000214241

Trimen & Hook.f. Fl. Ceyl. 6 (suppl.): 89. 1931; Back. & Bakh. f., Fl. Java 1: 545. 1964; Hattink, Reinwardtia 9: 24. 1974; Vidal & Hul Thol, Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. nat. Paris 395 (Bot. 27): 81. 1976; Vidal in Fl. C.L.V. 18: 28. Pl. 3, 1–7. 1980. Fig. 16: 1–7.

Accepted Name : Biancaea decapetala (Roth) O.Deg.
Fl. Hawaiiensis p. K 7. 1936.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Climber or shrub up to 10 m, armed with recurved or straight prickles. Stipules obliquely ovate, 4–20 by 2–8 mm, lately caducous. Leaves: rhachis 12–40 cm; pinnae 4–10 pairs; leaflets 8–12 pairs, opposite, subsessile or petiolulate up to 1 mm, elliptic-oblong, 10–25 by 4–10 mm, rounded at the tip, unequal at the base. Racemes terminal and axillary. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, caducous. Pedicels 20(–40 mm), pubescent, jointed near the top. Sepals glabrous or pubescent, the lowest one hood shaped. Petals yellow, the standard smaller, rounded at the top, constricted towards the middle into a claw, hairy inside and along the margins. Filaments hairy. Ovary glabrous or pubescent, 8–10 ovulate. Pods subsessile on the receptacle, elliptic-oblong in outline, 6–10 by 2.5–3 cm, prolonged in a beak up to 2 cm, ± keeled or winged on the upper side (2–3 mm). Seeds 4–8, ellipsoid, 10 by 6 mm.

Thailand : SOUTH-EASTERN: Prachin Buri; PENINSULAR: Phuket.

Distribution : Ceylon, India (type), Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Laos, S & N Vietnam, China, Corea, Japan, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.

Ecology : Only two specimens recorded from Thailand without ecological information.

Vernacular : Kamchai (กำจาย)(Central).