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Caesalpinia pulcherrima

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Name

Identification
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Common name
  • orgueil de Chine (Berhaut); poincillade (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • pride of Barbados; flower fence., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1791);
Poinciana pulcherrima L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Glabrous ornamental shrub, unarmed or with small prickles; pinnae 3–10 pairs; leaflets 5–11(–13) pairs per pinna, oblong-elliptic, 5–18(–28) x 4–9(–15) mm; flowers in long racemes,with scarlet, red and yellow, orange-red or yellow petals 15–25 mm long; filaments scarlet, 3–6.5 cm.
Range
Cultivated at least in N2, C2, S1, S2 and S3 probably native of tropical America.
Distribution
SOMALIA Scassellati 70, 117; Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 7012.
Notes
Barbados pride (Eng.); mallinni (Som.).

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