22 MIMOSACEAE 
leaflets; leaflets elliptic, 15-50 mm long, 8-25 mm 
wide, basal pair often much smaller, discolorous, 
sparsely hairy. Inflorescence a spike-like raceme, 
solitary, axillary, 170-210 mm long. Flowers cream 
to yellow on pedicels c. 4 mm long. Calyx c. 
1 mm long, shallowly lobed, sparsely hairy. Corolla 
c. 4 mm long, glabrous, fused at base. Stamens 
more or less equal to corolla. Ovary hairy. Pods 
to 220 mm long, c. 16 mm wide, dark brown 
outside, yellowish within, twisting or coiling at 
Adenanthera 
dehiscence. Seeds persistent, bright red, shiny, 
irregularly discoid, 8-10 mm diam. Flowering: 
Jan - Feb; fruiting: pods persist throughout the year. 
Fig. 10 : Red Bead Tree 
Top End and Qld and considered native. Also 
native to tropical Asia and Malesia and widely 
cultivated. Monsoon vine forest on a variety 
of substrates. Rare in the DR. The seeds are 
edible and also used for necklaces (Macmillan, 
1991). 
ALBIZIA Durazz. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves bipinnate; petiole and rachis with glands. Inflorescence of heads or spikes (not in 
NT), solitary and axillary or in terminal panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite or male. Calyx (4)5(7)-lobed. 
Corolla (4)5(6)-lobed. Stamens many, usually 19-50; filaments basally united into a tube. Pods oblong, straight, 
flattened, mostly dehiscent, thin to almost woody. 
A pantropic genus of 100-150 species with 3 species in the NT, 2 of which occur in the DR. 
1. Leaflets with appressed hairs on both surfaces, 14-35 mm wide, apex apiculate; 
inflorescence a terminal panicle; staminal filaments c. 15 mm long .....ssessssesssseeesseeeeee 
A. canescens 
1. Leaflets glabrous or hairs restricted to margin and mid vein, 9-14 mm wide, apex rounded; 
inflorescence an axillary head; staminal filaments c. 30 mm long ....sccssseesssseesseeesseeesees 
A. canescens Benth. 
Tree 7-10 m high. Bark yellowish to pale 
grey, deeply furrowed. Stipules caducous. Pulvinus 
3-5 mm long, tomentose. Leaf rachis closely 
tomentose, (15)70-230 mm long with 1-5 pairs 
of pinnae; petiolar gland oblong, jugary glands 
absent, interjugary glands usually present; pinnae 
40-155 mm long, 2-7 pairs of leaflets per pinnae; 
leaflets asymmetrically elliptic, 32-44 mm long, 
14-35 mm wide, slightly discolorous, sericeous 
when young becoming sparsely so with age. Inflores- 
cence a terminal panicle to 130 mm long. Flowers 
sessile in heads. Calyx campanulate, 2.5-3 mm 
long, irregularly lobed, hairy. Corolla c. 7 mm long, 
deeply lobed. Staminal filaments c. 15 mm 
long, creamy to white. Pods brown, 170-280 mm 
long, 30-40 mm wide, glabrous, valves thin. Seeds 
discoid, brown, c. 8.5 mm diam. Flowering: Sept; 
fruiting: June - Oct. Fig. 11 
Across northern Australia, often associated with 
heavy soils and limestone. Uncommon in the 
southern part of the DR in the Daly River area. 
A. lebbeck (L.) Benth. 
Tree 5-10(15) m high, deciduous. Bark yellowish- 
A. lebbeck 
brown to pale grey with prominent lenticels. 
Stipules caducous. Pulvinus 2.5-4 mm long, 
glabrous to slightly hairy. Leaf rachis glabrous 
or tomentose, 48-205 mm long with (1)2-3(6) 
pairs of pinnae; petiolar gland circular to oblong, 
1-2 mm long, jugary and interjugary glands 
absent, small glands at nodes of terminal 4 pairs of 
leaflets; pinnae 25-150 mm long, (2)6-12 pairs 
of leaflets per pinnae; Jeaflets asymmetrically 
ovate, oblong or obovate, 18-37 mm long, 9-14 mm 
wide, basal pair often much smaller, discolorous, 
glabrous or sparsely hairy on margin and mid vein 
below. Inflorescence axillary, solitary heads; 
peduncle 15-80 mm long. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx 
cylindrical, 3 mm long, lobed, hairy. Corolla 7 mm 
long, deeply lobed. Staminal filaments c. 30 mm 
long; cream. Pods apparently indehiscent, 
stramineous, 160-230 mm long, 30-40 mm wide, 
glabrous, valves thin. Seeds discoid, pale brown, 
9 mm long, 7 mm wide. Flowering: Sept - Oct; 
fruiting: June - Sept. Fig. 11 
Across northern Australia and considered native. 
Also native to tropical Asia and cultivated 
pantropically. Coastal vine thickets on old dunes, 
laterite or basalt. Rare in the DR but commonly 
cultivated. 
