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Albizia corniculata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Loureiro) Druce

Common Names

• Tian xiang teng (Pinyin)
• Voeur ampil (Cambodia)
• Keua han (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• N. Borneo
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• Macao - China
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Fields
• primary or secondary forest
• riverside
• forest edge.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Nov (China)
• Feb
• Apr-Jun (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Nov (China)
• Jun-Aug
• Dec (Malesia)

Prickly or unarmed tree, scandent shrub or liana to 45m with glabrous branchlets armed with 8mm recurved prickles, glabrous stems with lenticels. Bipinnate leaves with 3-10 pairs of leaflets to 20mm x 10mm, sometimes slightly mucronate, prickles at base of petiole. Terminal or axillary panicle to 150mm long of white or greenish-white flowers to 4mm, calyx 1mm long with triangular teeth to 2mm, corolla to 6mm long villous outside, fruit a flat glabrous reddish to brown pod to 200mm x 40mm

Pods used as a soap substitute

Further References

• FOC
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• ILDIS