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Adenanthera pavonina L.
bin ("beanU)(N); lopa (T)
"red-bead tree", "false wiliwili" (Hawaii)
Pre-World War I1 introduction? Malaysia. Common. Medium-sized, deciduous
tree, up to 7 m or higher; leaves, bipinnate, with 2 to 8 pairs of compound leaflets
(pinnae), each with 6 to 12 pairs of alternate leaflets, 2 to 5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide,
ovate, obtuse, glabrous, rather pale green, thin; petiolules about 2 mm long; flowers,
greenish-white to yellowish, sweet-fragrant, short-pedicellate, borne in slender, elongate
axillary or aggregated terminal pedunculate racemose clusters, up to 15 cm or more long;
calyx, campanulate, 4- to 5-toothed; stamens 8 to 10; fruit, a pod, up to 25 cm or longer
and 2 cm wide, slender, flattened, linear at first, becoming falcately curved or contorted,
brown, smooth and shiny inside, 2-valved, dehiscent, becoming spirally twisted after
dehiscence; seeds, about 8 mm across, 10 to 12 per pod, lenticular, suborbicular, hard,
very ornamental, dark or bright red. Spontaneous tree in escarpment and Buada forests
and in older strip-mined areas. Seeds used in necklaces and eaten by children. 3(58804),
5(142), 6, 7.
Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. "alysicarpus" , "one-leaved clover"
syns. Hedysarum vaginale L; A. nummularifoliur (L.) DC.
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Paleotropics. Common. More or less prostrate,
somewhat suffruticose hispid branching, spreading herb, with jointed stems up to 1 m or
more long; leaves, 0.3 to 5 cm long and 0.2 to 3 cm wide, alternate, somewhat dimor-
phic, the proximal elliptic-subobovate, the distal narrower, lanceolate, rounded at the
tips, obtuse or truncate at base; petioles, 1 to 8 mm long, slender; stipules, prominent;
flowers, about 6 lnm long, pinkish to reddish purple, short-pedicellate, borne in rather
dense short terminal racemose clusters, up to 8 cm long, 6 to 12 flowers to a cluster;
fruit, pods, 1 to 2.5 cm long, crowded, 5 to 7 seeded, cylindric, rugose, jointed,
indehiscent, but breaking at the joints between seeds at maturity; seeds, about 1.5 mm
long, oblong-oval, brown to pale brown or yellowish. Weed in open or semi-open places,
along jeep tracks in unmined forest, and a pioneer plant in recently mined areas. 2,
3(58744, 58763), 4(115N), 5(88), 6, 7.
Bauhinia monandra Kurz "pink bauhinia", "orchid tree", "pink butterfly tree",
"St. Thomas tree"
Recent introduction. Burma. Occasional. Shrub or small tree, up to 5 m or higher,
with a rounded crown, smooth gray bark and brown-hairy young growth; leaves, 7 to 20
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palmately 3- to many-nerved, pubescent beneath when young, deeply divided at apex into
2 wing- or butterfly-like lobes which extend about a fifth to half way to the base, lobes
obtuse to subacuminate; calyx, spathaceous or 5-lobed; flowers, orchid-like, up to 10 cm