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Millettia pachycarpa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Hou guo ya dou teng (Pinyin)
• Mi-gyaung-nwe (Myanmar)
• Nhtau-ru (Myanmar)
• Semein (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• SW. Hubei
• Hunan
• S. Jiangxi
• Sichan
• Taiwan
• SW. Xizang
• Yunnan
• S. Zhejiang - China
• India
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• evergreen forest
• montane thickets.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Nov (China)

Large perennial deciduous woody brown-pubescent liane with lenticellate glabrous branches. Leaves with 11-17 leaflets to 120mm x 45mm, glabrous above, silky beneath becoming glabrescent. Hairy pseudo-racemes to 300mm long of 25mm long purple-pink flowers, silky calyx 7mm x 6mm, glabrous pale lilac petals, standard 14mm across. Dark brown fleshy fruit pod to 250mm x 50mm covered in pale yellow warts.

Further References

• FOC
• ILDIS
• NYBG
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• Merrill