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Cajanus crassus

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Prain ex King) van der Maesen

Common Names

• Thick-stemmed Cajanus
• Jungli Baler (Hindi)
• Kandul (Oriya)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perlis - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Dec-Mar (India)

Fruiting Times

Climbing twining tomentose shrub with rusty-tomentose trifoliolate foliage, pinnately 3-foliolate leaves to 150mm long, leaflets to 75mm x 56mm. Axillary racemes to 75mm long, yellow flowers with bracteoles to 4mm long, villous calyx to 10mm, petals to 20mm. Greenish-brown or yellowish pubescent pod 30mm x 8mm.

Edible fruit

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• F Indochine
• GBS