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Callerya cinerea

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Bentham) Schott

Common Names

• Hui mao ji xue teng (Pinyin)
• Se-min (Myanmar)
• Toum nok (Laos)
• Dok kom koï (Laos)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Jiangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• SW. Sichuan
• SE. Xizang
• S. Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• secondary forest
• streamside.

Flowering Times

• Feb-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Scandent shrub, tree or rampant woody climber to 6m, grey-pubescent young growth, ridged stems. 5-9 foliolate leaves to 250mm long, leaflets to 150mm x 70mm, glabrous above silky beneath. Villous terminal panicles or racemes to 200mm x 150mm of 18mm long grey-silky red or mauve flowers, white outside, calyx to 5mm x 5mm, silky petals, standard 8mm scross Grey-pubescent or red-villous seed pod to 130mm long x 25mm.

Stem & root poisonous

Medicinal uses, Leaves used to smoke tea, food, drink, forage

Further References

• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• JAA
• Kew