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Dumasia villosa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

• Shan hei dou (Pinyin)
• No-sasage (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Burundi
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• N. India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Uganda
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riversides
• montane valleys.

Flowering Times

• Sep-Oct (China)
• Oct-Nov (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Dec (China)

Twining villous woody herb or liane with axillary 150mm racemes of 18mm yellow to reddish flowers, densely yellow-villous, calyx 8mm long, standard 14mm x 10mm, velvety pod constricted between seeds drying brown to 40mm long x 5mm, young growth & branches hairy, trifoliolate mucronate leaves, glabrous leaflets

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• Botanicus
• F Indochine