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Shuteria involucrata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Wallich) Wight & Arnott

Common Names

• Dongsing Noba (Tamang)
• Su bao dou (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest margins & thickets
• evergreen forests
• disturbed areas
• secondary growth
• forest margins
• grassland
• babmboo forest

Flowering Times

• Sep-Mar (China)
• Oct-Nov (Thailand)
• Oct (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Apr (China)
• Dec-Jan (Thailand)

Herbaceous densely hairy or glabrescent slender twiner or perennial deciduous vine with axillary 150mm racemes of 15mm pink, red or purple flowers or white flowers tipped pink, fruit a hairy pod to 50mm long x 6mm

Further References

• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• NYBG
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Botanicus