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Mezoneurun scortechinii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

F. Mueller

Common Names

• Mother-in-law Vine

Geographical Habitats

• New South Wales
• Queensland - Australia
• Papua New Guinea

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• rain forest
• secondary forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct (Australia)
• Aug (Papua New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

Large evergreen liana or shrub, branchlets with a few recurved prickles, bipinnate leaves with leaflets to 30mm x 16mm. Supra-axillary and terminal panicles to 300mm long with 3mm hairy bracts, 20mm yellow flowers, almost glabrous sepals to 6mm x 2mm, petals to 6mm x 3mm, winged seed pods to 50mm x 30mm with a 6mm wide wing

Further References

• Jones & Gray 1977
• Wrigley & Fagg 1979
• Mobot
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• Flora Malesiana