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Abrus pulchellus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Wallich ex Thwaites

Common Names

• Mei li xiang si zi (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Botswana
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Guangxi
• Yunnan - China
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Madagascar
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Perak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Nigeria
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Vietnam
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• woodland
• hedgerows

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Wiry glabrous herb, shrub or liana to 6m with hairy or glabrous stems, paripinnate leaves to 5-15 pairs, mucronate leaflets to 32mm long glabrous above hairy beneath. Axillary racemes or panicles to 100mm of 12mm pink, pale blue or purple flowers, bell-shaped calyx to 2mm villous outside. Yellow finely villous legume 50mm x 15mm with dense white hairs

Further References

• FOM
• ILDIS
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• GBS