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Callerya nitida

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Bentham) R. Geesink

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Akar Belum (Sarawak)
• Glittering-leaved Millettia

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Jiangxi
• Sichiuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China

Natural Habitats

• Coastal thickets & woodland
• montane forests
• shrubland
• thickets
• forest edges

Flowering Times

• May-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (China)

Scandent evergreen glabrescent shrub to 10 with branchlets yellow-brown villose. 5-foliolate leaves to 200mm long, leaflets to 110mm x 40mm. Terminal panicles to 120mm long of 24mm purple or red-purple flowers with yellow centre on standard. Fruit a densely rusty-hairy brown pod to 160mm long x 20mm with an apical beak.

Bark used for making paper, roots used for pesticide

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• ILDIS
• Chujian 2001
• The Plant List 2