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Derris scandens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Roxburgh) Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Guangdong - China
• East Timor
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Penang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Pakistan
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Reunion Island
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• scrub forest
• forest
• mangrove margin
• coastal
• lowland forest
• disturbed areas
• cultivated areas
• grassland
• mangroves

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (India)

Fruiting Times

Very large evergreen woody twining grey-downy glabrescent climber or creeper with dark purple stems with lenticels. Imparipinnate coriaceous leaves to 9-19 foliolate, glabrous leaflets or hairy beneath, terminal leaflet tyo 80mm x 32mm. Axillary villous pseudoracemes or panicles to 450mm long with bracts to 1mm x 0.7mm, flowers white or pink with subtending bracts to 0.7mm x 0.5mm & bracteoles to 0.8mm x 0.7mm, claw to 3mm long, standard petals 8mm x 8mm, villous wings & keel 9mm long, reddish or greenish-red calyx villous outside to 2.7mm, tube to 2mm & lobes to 0.7mm x 2mm. Hairy or glabrous flat pod 100mm x 20mm with wings 3mm wide.

Further References

• Mangrove
• FI
• JDH
• APDC
• FOSi
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• ILDIS
• Academia BioOne