Compilation
Securidaca longepedunculata

Small tree or shrub up to 6 m tall; young branchlets softly pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, oblong-ovate, oblong-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, (1–)2.5–5.5(–9)≈0.5–2(–2.5) cm, coriaceous, obtuse to rounded, base cuneate; upper surface glabrous or slightly pubescent below; petiole 2–10 mm, pubescent. Flowers pink or purple, sometimes variegated with white, sweet-scented, in axillary or terminal racemes 3–15 cm long, often borne on short shoots which become spiny, many-flowered; peduncle and rachis pubescent; bracts and bracteoles soon caducous; pedicels 10–18(–20) mm, pubescent. Posterior sepal ovate, 4–6≈3–5 mm, ciliate; wing-sepals suborbicular, (3–)5–9.5 mm in diameter; anterior sepals suborbicular to broadly ovate, 2.5–4.5 mm in diameter. Upper petals narrowly elliptic or oblong-obovate, 5–7.5≈2.5–4 mm, ciliate towards the base; carina 8–10≈5 mm, with a small lobed appendage, 1 mm long, near the apex. Staminal sheath 6–7 mm long, ciliate on the upper margin. Fruit 5–7≈1–2 cm, with an oblong-elliptic somewhat obliquely curved wing, with a second imperfect and rudimentary wing; nut subglobose, 8–10 mm in diameter, rugulose or smooth. Fig. 2, p. 5.