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Moullava tortuosa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Roxburgh) Gagnon & G.P. Lewis

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C

Hardiness Zone

10-11

Common Names

• Niu guo su mu (Pinyin)
• Sun-letthe (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Guangdong
• Hongkong
• Yunnan - China
• Assam - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Penang - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Montane shrubland
• primary and secondary forest
• forest edge
• riverside
• lowland forest

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Aug (China)

Prickly downy liana, erect shrub or small tree to 10m with glabrous branchlets with recurved prickles, bipinnate leaves to 105mm long with leaflets to 22mm x 6mm glabrous or sparsely puberulous beneath. Terminal and axillary racemes or panicle to 600mm long with hairy bracts 2mm x 1mm. Yellowish, sometimes spotted flowers, sepals to 10mm x 7mm, standard petal 5mm diameter, claw to 8mm x 2mm, other 4 petals to 10mm x 12mm, fruit a glabrous legume 90mm x 35mm, often twisted, with a short beak, constricted between seeds

Roots used medicinally, chemicals

Further References

• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• FS
• USNH
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS