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Parkinsonia
Feathery-leafy or phyllodial, nodally armed shrub or small tree with yellowish
green twigs. Leaves 1-3 from spurs, sessile, 2-pinnate with 2 or occationally 3
pinnae, but appearing 1-pinnate due to the absence of common petiole; leafstalk
(of pinnae) eglandular, broad and flat often curved; leaflets about 40-60, ovate
to oblong, smaller distally, often gradually deciduous; stipules obsolescent or
spiny. Inflorescence(s) intercalary or terminally congested short racemes with
2-15 flowers. Calyx nearly separate from sepals, lobes reflexed then usually
deciduous; corolla nearly regular, yellow, petals erose-margined; androecium of
10 stamens. Legume stipitate, indehiscent, oblong or linear, subterete,
irregularly torulose, flat-beaked. Seeds 2-few. (ISE)
Plants listed in the manual include:
Parkinsonia
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