Parkinsonia aculeata L.

Evergreen shrub or small tree ; up to 13 m tall , with slender often pendulous branches . Stems subglabrous or shortly appressed-pubescent when young , armed with short spines . Leaves with 1–2(3) pairs of very long narrow pinnae inserted very close together near the base of the spinescent rachis ; leaflets opposite or alternate , up to 6(9) , oblong or oblanceolate . Inflorescences in fairly lax racemes . Flowers bright yellow , mildly fragrant ; sepals 5–7 mm long , oblong , narrowly imbricate , becoming reflexed in full flower ; Petals 8–13 mm long , the standard with a distinct claw , yellow ; stamens 4–9 mm long ; anthers 1 . 3–2 mm long ; ovary clothed with longish white hairs , glabrescent . Fruit pods (2)3–12(15) , linear , compressed , usually ± straight , constricted between the seeds . Seeds c . 9 × 6 × 2 . 5 mm , elliptic-oblong , light brown with dark markings . (Ref . POWO , 2021) .

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Parkinsonia inermis Spreng.
Parkinsonia spinosa Kunth; Parkinsonia thornberi M.E.Jones