Guilandina major (DC.) Small

Caesalpinia Bonduc (Linnaeus) Roxburgh, Hort. Beng., 32, 1814.
Prickly, scrambling shrub, young parts brown pubescent. Leaves^ large, bipinnate,
leaflets subsessile, oblong to ovate, up to 8 cm. long and 4 or more cm. wide, but commonly
somewhat smaller, mucronate, the rachis with numerous short, very sharp, recurved
prickles. Flowers yellow, in supra-axillary, racemose clusters. Pod nearly lenticular,
prickly, about S cm. long.
?^Frequent in thickets (9888, 10224, 10233). The plant is disagreeable
of the vicious prickles which cling to clothing and produce painful
The stems are used to make snares to capture fruit bats. English
^^^Hiellow nickers; native names, talamoa, talatalamoa, talamoa foto.
Name as accepted:
Guilandina bonduc L.
DÉPAUW UNIV.
HERBARIUM.
27013
Gagnon et al. 2016. Generic syst. Caesalpinia.
PhytoKeys 71:1-160.
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