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| Distribution | Native to tropical Africa, planted extensively as an ornamental and shade tree throughout the tropics.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Trees 7-25 m tall.
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Leaves
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Leaves odd pinnately compound with 3-19 leaflets, these elliptic, 7-13 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, rufous tomentose on lower leaf surface, pseudostipules foliaceous, ovate to cordate, ca. 3 cm long, ca. 2 cm wide.
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Flowers
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Inflorescence branches and calyx rufous tomentose, calyx 4.5-6 cm long; corolla 8.5-9(-12) cm long, 4.5-5 cm wide at the mouth.
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Fruit
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Capsules 17-25 cm long, 3.5-7 cm in diameter.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 26, 36, 38.
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