| Dicotyledon | Literature for Albizia lebbeck
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Fabaceae -- The Pea Family | Bibliography |
| Albizia lebbeck | |
Common name(s): `ohai (Ni`ihau), siris tree, woman's tongue |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to the Paleotropics.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Tree to 25 m tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves petiolate; blade with 2–3 pairs of pinnae; leaflets 3–6 pairs per pinna, midrib median or nearly so, 15–50 mm long, 9–35 mm wide, apex rounded or truncate, with usually 2 nectaries per rachis, one of them ca. 15 mm above the basal pulvinus and the other between the basal or distal pair of pinnae; stipules inconspicuous. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences a corymbiform head, 15–20 mm in diameter (excluding stamens), these pedunculate, 1–2(3) peduncles together in the leaf axils. Flowers 6–8 mm long (central one larger); corolla white or pale green; stamens to 25 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit flat, 20–35 cm long, 3–4 cm wide, tardily dehiscent, usually persistent on tree. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds (2‒)3‒10, ellipsoid, ca. 10 mm long, 6–7 mm in diameter, laterally flattened, distinctly median (remote from sutures), with a pleurogram ca. 5 mm long, 2 mm wide. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 26. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
