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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 aculeata

 

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