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Senegalia polyphylla

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
(de Candolle) Britton & Rose

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Large unarmed or armed glabrous liana, scrambling woody vine, tree or shrub to 14m with younger parts puberulent or glabrate, recurved thorns. Bipinnate leaves with 12-20 pairs with 30-50 pairs of pinna to 6mm x 4mm, leaflets puberulous beneath 150mm long x 30mm becoming glabrate. Terminal many-flowered panicles of fragrant cream or yellow flowers with minute bracts, ashy puberulent calyx to 2mm long & pubescent corolla to 4mm long. Glabrous flat brown pods to 170mm x 40mm, usually spiny.

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