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Gleditsia japonica Miq.   (redirected from: Gleditsia caspica Nakai)
Family: Fabaceae
[Caesalpiniodes caspium (Desf.) Kuntze, moreCaesalpiniodes japonicum (Miq.) Kuntze, Fagara horrida Thunb., Gleditsia caspica Nakai, Gleditsia coccinea Koehne, Gleditsia coccinea var. inermis (Mayr) Nakai, Gleditsia horrida var. inermis (Mayr) Nakai, Gleditsia japonica f. inarmata Nakai, Gleditsia japonica f. inermis Mayr, Gleditsia japonica var. inermis (Mayr) Nakai, Gleditsia japonica var. koraiensis Nakai, Gleditsia japonica var. purpurea Rehder, Gleditsia koraiensis Nakai ex T.Mori, Gleditsia melanacantha T.Tang & F.T.Wang]
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Japan Flora: Tree with nearly glabrous branches and branched spines; leaves 10-25 cm. long, simply or twice pinnate, short-pubescent on the rachis, the leaflets 12-24 on each pinna, oblique, narrowly ovate, 15-35 mm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, obtuse, entire or undulate-serrate, upper margin slightly dilated at base, nearly or quite gla­brous, with raised veinlets beneath, green and slightly lustrous above, yellowish green beneath; spikes 6-8 cm. long, densely flowered, from the short leafy shoots; flowers yeDowish, 3-4 mm. across, nearly sessile; calyx slighdy pubescent, the lobes oblong, slightly shorter than the tube; petals yellowish, elliptic, puberulous; stamens short-exserted; legumes 20-25 cm. long, 3- 3.5 cm. wide, pendulous, slightly arcuate, on a stipe about 2.5 cm. long.  May-June.

Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.

Gleditsia japonica
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