DERRIS trifoliata Lour. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DERRIS trifoliata Lour. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1790). Fig. 210.
Information
Woody climber with twining branches. Leaves 8–21(–30) cm long; leaflets 3–5(–7), lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, c. 5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, acuminate, shiny, subglabrous. Pseudoracemes terminal or axillary, 10–28 cm long. Calyx subtruncate, subglabrous with ciliolate margin. Corolla white to very pale mauve, 9–12 mm long. Pod ± kidney-shaped, 3–4.5(–5.5) x 2–3(–3.5) cm, rounded on the lower side, narrowly winged along upper edge, pale, subglabrous, usually 1-seeded.
Range
S3 coastal parts of eastern Africa southwards to Natal, Madagascar, Mascarene Is., and tropical Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Puccioni 19.
Notes
Cusmaan doy (Som.).
DERRIS trifoliata Lour. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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