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Apios carnea

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Wallich) Bentham ex Baker

Common Names

• Rou se tu luan er (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• roadside.

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Large glabrescent twining liana with 5 glabrous leaflets to 100mm long. Axillary racemes to 400mm of 20mm red, reddish-purple or orange flowers, glabrous calyx to 10mm long with 5mm tube, petals to 20mm long standard with darker lines to 10mm wide, wings to 10mm, keel 4mm across. Glabrous pod to 190mm x 7mm.

Source of seed oil

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• FBA