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Phanera vahlii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Wight & Arnott) Bentham

Common Names

• Malu Creeper
• Maloo Creeper
• Maklo (Chepang)
• Madhan (Danuwar)
• Camel's Foot Climber
• Malu (Gurung
• Nepali)
• Peli (Gurung)
• Bhorla (Majhi
• Nepali)
• Malhan (Mooshar)
• Kusa Lapte Ma (Newari)
• Bharla (Rai)
• Moharain (Tharu)
• Chehur (Bangladesh)
• Maljan (Hindi)
• Sihar (Bengal)
• Chambul (India)
• Adda (India)
• Bwegyin (Myanmar)
• Mai-sio (Myanmar)
• Swedaw (Myanmar)
• Wut (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• India
• Himalaya
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka

Natural Habitats

• Forest

Flowering Times

• Apr (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov to Jan

Large woody pubescent evergreen tendril climber or tree with 50mm white to cream flowers in terminal clusters or corymbose racemes, petals with ruffled margins, hairy pink pistil, fruit a rusty-downy flat woody brown pod to 300mm long x 50mm, leaves silky beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• JDH
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• ILDIS