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Derris ferruginea

Botanic Family
Leguminosae
Author
(Roxburgh) Bentham

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Woody vine, shrub or liana with densely rusty pubescent branchlets becoming glabrescent. Leaves 7-9 foliolate with terminal leaflet 120mm x 50mm, glabrous above rusty-villous beneath. 300mm long axillary or terminal rusty-tomentose pseudopanicles with bracts to 2.5mm x 1.2mm of 14mm sweet fragrant pink or red to white flowers with bracts to 1.8mm x 0.8mm & bracteoles to 1.2mm x 0.5mm, calyx rusty-villous outside to 2.5mm with tube 2mm & lobes to 1mm x 2.5mm, petals slightly villous outside, white corolla, claw to 2.8mm, standard to 9.9mm x 7mm, wings to 7mm x 1mm, keel to 7.5mm x 2.5mm. Fruit a glabrescent leathery finely rusty-villous winged legume to 95mm x 35mm with one wing to 10mm wide.

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