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Entada rheedii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Sprengel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Pantropical

Natural Habitats

• Evergreen forest
• primary and secondary forest
• riverside
• coastal
• lowland forest.

Flowering Times

• Mar-Apr (China)
• May-Oct (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Apr (Thailand)
• Aug-Oct (China)
• Jul-Aug (Malesia)

Tall perennial deciduous woody climbing tendril vine or liana to 120m+ with spirally twisted stems. Compound bipinnate leaves terminating in bifid tendril, 3,4 or 5 pairs of glabrous leaflets to 70mm x 35mm. Puberulent axillary spikes to 250mm of small greenish to white flowers with green calyx to 1mm with inconspicuous teeth, 5 white petals to 3mm long, 2-4 pairs giant glabrous green twisted pods to 2000mm long x 150mm,

Further References

• Mobot
• FOC
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• Sahyadri
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Timberlake
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Envis