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Machaerium piresii

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
Rudd

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Climbing shrub or liana with glabrescent stems. Leaves 7-13 foliolate, coriaceous leaflets to 170mm x 70mm, pubescent on mid-vein above otherwise glabrous & tomentulose beneath. Terminal panicles with pubescent spinescent bracts to 8mm x 5mm & bracteoles to 2mm x 2mm, flowers 6mm long with tomentulose calyx to 2.5mm x 1.5mm with teeth less than 1mm long, reddish petals pubescent outside. Winged dark brown glabrescent fruit to 100mm x 5mm with wing 70mm x 25m.

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