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Guilandina minax

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Hance) G.P. Lewis

Cultivated

C, hedge

Common Names

• Hui jia yun shi (Pinyin)
• Vuô Hùm (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hongkong
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• streamsides
• shrubland

Flowering Times

• Mar-May & Jul-Nov (China)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Dec (China)

Prickly climber with terminal racemes or panicles to 300mm or more long yellow-pubescent with spines of whitish flowers with purple spots, bracts 20mm x 7mm tomentose both sides, 5 sepals villous outside, 4 petals to 20mm x 12mm villous both sides, densely spiny legume 130mm x 45mm, spines 12mm long, leaves & stems yellow-pubescent, 10 pairs of mucronate leaflets

Further References

• FOC
• Mansfeld
• USNH
• F Indochine
• ILDIS