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Millettia pulchra

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Kurz

Common Names

• Swethe (Myanbmar)
• Thinwin-zat (Myanmar)
• Thitpagan (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Tree or rarely a shrubby liane, greyish-pubescent stems with lenticels, leaves to 19 foliolate, villous above, hairy beneath, axillary villous racemes to 200mm long of reddish flowers, flowers 12mm long, calyx 4mm long, 100mm x 20mm long yellow silky pod

Used for building & medicinally

Further References

• ILDIS
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine