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Spatholobus parviflorus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Roxburgh ex G. Don) Kuntze

Common Names

• Debre Lahara (Nepali)
• Mokare (Nepali)
• Xian mai mi hua dou (Pinyin)
• Laban-ru (Myanmar)
• Nwe-ni (Myanmar)
• Pauk-nwe (Myanmar)
• Rubanru (Myanmar)
• Da-ma-nge (Myanmar)
• Maula
• Maulu
• Pilacchi
• Valli

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• W. Yunnan - China
• India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• thickets
• montane areas.

Flowering Times

• Jan-Feb (India)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Mar (China)

Robust large woody liana or tree with grey-downy glabrescent branches, terminal or axillary densely pubescent panicles to 450mm long of 18mm long cream, white or pinkish-white, purple or bright red flower , calyx to 8mm long silky both surfaces, 8mm standard, fruit a brown-velvety pod to 150mm x 40mm, compound leaves, pubescent branches, trifoliolate leaves glabrescent above silky-pubescent beneath

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Sahyadri
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine