Trees, unarmed. Branches spreading to ascending. Stems densely strigose or villous, glabrescent. Leaves ± persistent, alternate, even-pinnate; stipules present, caducous; petiolate; leaflets (8–)10–20(–32), opposite, stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 5–10(–15)-flowered, terminal, racemes; bracts and bracteoles present. Flowers caesalpinioid; calyx narrowly turbinate, lobes 4; corolla creamy white to yellowish, streaked with red, abaxial 2 petals scalelike, adaxial 3 developed; stamens 10, monadelphous; anthers dorsifixed. Fruits legumes, stipitate, compressed, broadly elliptic to oblong, indehiscent, glabrous; mesocarp thick, pulpy. Seeds (1–)3–6[–14], obovoid to orbicular; hilum lateral, embryo erect. x = 12.

Distribution

Introduced; Florida, Asia, introduced also in Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, tropical to warm temperate regions.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Tamarindus indica