- Pronunciation: see-sal-PIN-ee-ah score-tek-HEEN-ee-ii
- Common Name: Large Prickle-Vine, Wait-a-while
- Derivation: Caesalpinia: honours Andrea Cesalpini 1519-1603 - philosopher,botanist, physician, professor of medicine and superintendent of botanic garden at Pisa. scortechinii: honours Rev. Father Benedetto Scortechini 1845-1886, Italian botanist who visited Australia. (connections with Southport and Beaudesert districts)
- Type: Vine Shrub Climber, woody
- Family: CAESALPINIACEAE
- Flowers: Yellow
- Fruit: Flattened woody to 5 cm
- Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt Forest
- Species List: FI Podberscek, Cooloothin, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Noosa High School, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, Kin Kin Scrub, Dandaloo, Upper Yandina Creek,
Cultural Notes
Seeds used ornamentally.
Identification Notes
Large prickles on Stem.
Leaves: Alternate, Compound, bipinnate, 4 to 8 Opposite pairs each with 5 to 10 leaflets, Entire. Petiole, Branchlets and midrib hairy.
Pods: winged.
Landscaping Notes
Part shade. Prickly dense Shrub. Deterrent.
