Parkia javanica

Parkia javanica Lam., syn. Parkia roxburghii G. Don. (Indonesian: Kedaung, Javanese: Kedhawung, Filipino: Cupang) is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Mimosaceae.Description- Plant- A middle-sized unarmed tree (up to 30 m) with spreading branches, twig brown, pubescent. Leaves- Alternate, compound, bipinnate, petiolate, petiole long with gland below and lower pair of pinnae and a few between the upper pinna; pinna 8-30 pairs, opposite; leaflets 40–80 pairs close set, sessile, linear-oblong, fulcate (sickle or scythe shaped), truncate at the base (as it cut off by a straight tranverse line; blunt) ; stipulate, leaf base frequently swollen forming pulvinus. Inflorescence- Racemose in dense clavate, long peduncled heads with sterile flowers lower down, peduncle 30–40 cm long; receptacle of the inflorescence narrowed into 2.5–3 cm long stalk. Flower- Small, bractate, bracts spathulate, silky pubescent outside; complete, bisexual, regular, actinomorphic, hypogynus, pentamerous, thallamus slightly cup shaped, pale yellow. Calyx- Sepals 5, gamosepalous, tubular,tube short and cylindrical, glabrous, 5 cleft, lobes pilose, imbricate (though the sepals of Mimosaceae are valvate, the only exception is Parkia in which sepals are imbricate.) Corolla- Petals 5, polypetalous, connate below into a short tube, cleft halfway down, pale yellow, valvate. Androecium- Stamen 10, monadelphous, filaments filliform and united in the lower part with each other, exserted; anthers narrow, without apical glands, versatile.