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Mezoneuron cucullatum
Mezoneuron cucullatum
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Roxburgh) Wight & Arnott
Common Names
- Regi (India)
- Jian xue fei (Pinyin)
- Kyaung-kyet (Myanmar)
- Lamaw Juru (Myanmar)
- Sun-letthe (Myanmar)
Geographical Habitats
- Bhutan
- Borneo
- Yunnan - China
- Andaman Islands - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- N. & W. Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Moist forest
- forest
- montane shrubland
- forest edge
- scrubland
Flowering Times
- Nov-Feb (China)
- Dec-Mar (India)
Fruiting Times
Large prickly woody glabrous liana to 20m or shrub with hooked prickles to 10mm long, glabrous bipinnate coriaceous leaves, leaflets to 120mm x 65mm. Terminal and axillary panicles or lateral spiny glabrous racemes 500mm x 30mm of zygomorphic greenish-yellow flowers streaked red, 5 sepals 12mm x 4mm, bilobed yellow petals to 8.5mm x 6mm, reddish-brown winged glabrous legume 120mm x 35mm with 7.5mm wing
Further References
- FOC
- JDH
- The Plant List 2
- J.S. Gamble
- BF
- Sahyadri
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- Flora Malesiana
- ILDIS