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Pterolobium macropterum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Kurz

Common Names

• Da chi lao hu ci (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• Andaman Islands - India
• S. & C. Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• S. Myanmar
• Thailand
• S. Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forests

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• May & Oct (China)

Prickly woody liana to 30m with glabrous thorny stems, glabrous bipinnate leaves with thorny petioles, leaflets to 15mm x 9mm, glabrous above, sparsley pubescent beneath. Terminal or axillary racemes or panicles to 300mm x 100mm of white 5mm flowers, 5 glabrous sepals to 4.5mm x 2mm, 4 glabrous petals to 6mm x 3.5mm, fruit a winged pod to 65mm x 14mm, wing to 50mm x 20mm

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana