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Derris trifoliata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Loureiro

Common Names

• Pan-lata (India)
• Sila-sila (Philippines )
• Yu teng (Pinyin)
• Tuba Laut (Indonesia)
• Areuy Ki Tonggeret (Indonesia)
• Tuwa Areuy (Indonesia)
• Gadel (Indonesia)
• Toweran (Indonesia)
• Kamulut (Indonesia)
• Tuba Abal (Indonesia)
• Tuba bekut (Malaysia)
• Gamo (Zimanki)
• Cóc Kèn (Vietnam)
• Tuva (Fiji)
• Watuva (Fiji)
• Duva (Fiji)
• Akar Ketuil (Singapore)
• Black Creeper
• Nwe-net (Myanmar)
• Cây long kean (Vietnam)
• Co kém (Vietnam)
• Gay cðc (Vietnam)
• Gay cat (Vietnam)
• Woyfatum (Wanigela)
• Asiasimanan (Tagalog)
• Butong (Bisaya)
• Tob Tab Nam (Thailand)
• Khweap Ta-le (Thailand)
• Phak Tab (Thailand)
• Top Tab Ta-le (Thailand)
• Dây Cóckèn or Dây Ngái (Vietnam)
• Three Leaved Derris

Geographical Habitats

• N. Australia
• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan - China
• Comoros
• Fiji
• India
• Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Madagascar
• Johore
• Penang
• Perak - Malaysia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• S. Somalia
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• riverbanks
• thickets
• forest
• mangrove edge
• tidal rivers
• woodland
• primary & secondary forest
• swamp

Flowering Times

• Apr-Aug (China)
• Feb-Mar (India)
• Jan (New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China)
• Nov-Dec (Australia)

Large glabrous woody slender evergreen twining liana to 15m, tree or scandent shrub, glabrous stems with lenticels. Pinnately trifoliate to 5 or occasionally 7 foliolate leaves, glabrous coriaceous leaflets, terminal leaflet to 160mm x 85mm. Axillary pseudoracemes or terminal racemes to 200mm long with bracts to 1.4mm x 1mm, of 12mm scented white flowers with pink tinge to 12mm long with subtending bracts to 0.8mm x 0.6mm & bracteoles to 0.7mm x 0.6mm. Glabrous or thinly silky calyx to 4mm long with tube 3mm long & lobes to 0.5mm x 4mm, white to pale pink, purple or pale blue corolla to 9mm, claw to 4mm long, standard to 10mm x 9mm, wings to 9mm x 3mm, keel to 8mm x 4mm. Yellowish fruit long flat hairy or glabrous leathery buoyant pods to 55mm x 37mm with narrow wing 5mm wide.

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• Mobot
• Mangrove
• JPS
• FI
• JDH
• APDC
• FOSi
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FNWNG
• FOTA
• JAA
• GBS
• Academia BioOne
• MAN