Compilation
Erythrina platyphylla

Tree, rarely a shrub, 3–10 m tall, with a rounded crown; bark brown, thick, corky, deeply longitudinally fissured; young branches usually spiny. Terminal leaflet 6–14 × 6–16 cm, broadly elliptic to subrotund, often broader than long; lateral leaflets 4.5–14 × 3–11 cm, broadly ovate-rhombic, asymmetric at the base; petiole 8–17 cm long, armed with scattered prickles; rhachis 3–8 cm long; petiolules 3–12 mm long; stipules 3–7 mm long, linear-triangular. Inflorescence a terminal pseudoraceme; peduncle 4–16 cm long, densely tomentose; rhachis 5–20 cm long; bracts 6–8 × 2–3 mm, oblong, caducous; pedicels 2–5 mm long; bracteoles 4–8 × 1 mm, filiform, caducous. Calyx spathaceous, split fully by the emergent corolla along its abaxial edge, densely tomentose; tube 0.6–1.8 cm long; lobes 0.6–4.5 cm long, shape very variable, filiform, linear, elliptic, obovate or turbinate. Corolla red, glabrous; standard 2.8–4 × 1.1–1.5 cm, elliptic-oblong; wings 7–11 × 4–6 mm; keel petals free, 5–6 × 3–4 mm. Vexillary stamen joined only at the base; others fused along half their length into a tube. Ovary 1.5–2.5 cm, narrowly cylindrical-oblong. Pod brown to black 4.8–10.2 cm, curved, moniliform, woody, pubescent, 1–10-seeded. Seeds red, 6–12 × 5–7 × 3–5 mm; hilum black, 5–7 × 2–3 mm, narrowly elliptic.