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Caesalpinia crista

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Hua nan yun shi (Pinyin)
• Bonduc
• Akar Kelinci
• Kaniker
• Sompini
• Areuj
• Mata Kijang
• Kemrounggi
• Klengkeng
• Kutuk
• Aruk
• Tuwung
• Bagoré
• Buwa Goro
• Katé-katé
• Gray Nicker
• Cây Gieng-gieng
• Bonduc Nut
• Fever Nut
• Kalein (Myanmar)
• Malem (Myanmar)
• Malin (Myanmar
• Nicker Nut
• Sugauk-net (Myanmar)
• Suk Yan-bo (Myanmar)
• Ed-e (Papua)
• Gangan (Papua)
• Warliss Warliss (New Hebrides)
• Nanten-kazura (Japan)
• Guacalote Prieto (Cuba)
• Mato de Playa (Puerto Rico)
• Mato Azul (Puerto Rico)
• Oeil de Chat (Guadeloupe)
• Horse Eye (Grenada)
• Quashi (Grenada)
• Canique Grise (Guadeloupe)
• Yeux de Chat (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• Christmas Island
• Queensland - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• S. China
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• Panama
• Bismarck Archipelago
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• forests
• mangrove margins
• riversides
• coastal
• hedgerows
• wasteland
• sandy beaches
• rain forest.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China)
• Jan (India)
• May-Jul (Vanuatu)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Dec (China)

Large straggling very prickly glabrous woody liana to 15m, or tree with prickly glossy black branches & leaflets, mature plants have stems to 100mm thick covered with triangular woody knobs with recurved prickles set at tip. Bipinnate coriaceous glabrous leaves to 300mm long with 4 pairs of leaflets tomentose beneath to 125mm x 50mm. 450mm terminal & supra-axillary panicles or racemes with bracts 1mm long, fragrant bisexual yellow flowers, top-most petal veined red, flowers to 20mm across with woolly stalks, 6-8 sepals to 8mm x 3mm, 5 petals 10mm x 5mm, standard petal to 5mm across, pubescent claw 5mm x 2mm, glabrous prickly beaked brown legume 100mm x 60mm.

Naturalised in some places

Seeds used as marbles by children, medicinal uses, chemical products

Further References

• FOC
• Mangrove
• JDH
• APDC
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FOJ
• ILDIS
• SAFIO
• Standley