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Entada phaseoloides

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Merrill

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland - Australia
• Borneo
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Is.
• Maluklu
• Sulawesi
• W. Sumatra - Indonesia
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Is. - Japan
• Madagascar
• Johore - Malaysia
• Marianas
• Marshall Islands
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• New Hebrides
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Samoa
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• Tanzania
• Tonga
• N. Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• montane forest
• rain forest
• swamp
• forest
• coastal
• mangrove edges.

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jun (China)
• May
• Sep (New Hebrides)
• Jan-Nov (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)
• Nov (Malesia)

Giant evergreen woody tomentose prickly bifid tendril liana with fleshy tubers, glabrous stems often flattened. Glabrous coriaceous bipinnate leaves ending in a tendril, leaflets to 100mm x 63mm. Axillary & terminal spikes to 300mm long of fragrant yellowish to greenish-white 6mm long flowers with reddish base, glabrous green calyx to 1.25mm with inconspicuous teeth, 5-lobed corolla, petals to 3.5mm. Curved woody pods to 2m long x 150mm, constricted between the seeds.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray, 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Manadhar 2002
• Mobot
• FOH
• FOC
• Bodkin
• Mangrove
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• FOJ
• GBS
• Wiart 2