Entada rheedei Spreng.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Entada

Characteristics

Large liane up to 75 m long, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, unarmed; young branchlets glabrous or rarely (but not in our area) pubescent. Leaves: petiole up to 5 cm long, eglandular; rhachis ending in a forked tendril; pinnae 1-2 pairs; rhachillae 5.5-15 cm long; leaflets 3-5 pairs, 25-75 x 11-35 mm, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, obtuse or rounded apically, emarginate, glabrous or nearly so except for puberulence on the midrib above and near the base of the leaflet beneath. Stipules up to 3 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescences spicate, spikes axillary on lateral branches which are sometimes leafless and abbreviated, the spikes thus aggregated; spikes 6.5-15 cm long, axes pubescent; peduncles 1-6 cm long. Flowers yellowish-white or greenish-yellow, sessile or on pedicels up to 0.5 mm long. Calyx cupular, ±1.25 mm long, shortly 5-toothed, glabrous or rarely (but not in our area) pubescent. Petals free, ±2.5 mm long, glabrous. Stamens linear, ±6 mm long; anthers with an apical caducous gland. Ovary up to 2.25 mm long, glabrous. Pods gigantic, 0.5-2 m long, 7-15 cm wide, woody, straight or curved, but not spirally twisted, outer leathery layer of the pod-wall falling away to expose a reddish-brown woody rigid inner layer, ultimately breaking up transversely into 1-seeded segments. Seeds deep brown, ±5 x 3.5-5 cm, hard, smooth.
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Liane, mostly glabrous. Pinnae 2-jugate. Leaflets 3–4 (–5)-jugate, oval and oblanceolate, ± equilateral basally; petiolules puberulous; lamina narrowed with an obtuse tip, 3–7.5 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, retuse to emarginate; surfaces ± concolorous. Inflorescence axillary spikes, 8–22 cm long; peduncle 2–8 cm long, flowering axis with scattered, long, straight hairs; bracteoles subulate, 0.8–1.5 mm long, persistent. Flowers sessile, yellow, glabrous; calyx broadly cupular, 0.6–1 mm long; petals 2.5–3 mm long. Pod compressed, straight to slightly curved, to 2 m long and 7–15 cm wide, woody throughout. Seeds compressed, circular to oblong, 3.8–4.5 cm diam., 1.5–1.7 cm thick, chestnut brown.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Grows in coastal rainforest and monsoon forest along streams and rivers and in forest behind beach in sandy, sandy loam and clay soils.
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Uses environmental use food gene source invertebrate food material medicinal poison social use
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Distribution

Entada rheedei world distribution map, present in Australia, Thailand, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493874-1
WFO ID wfo-0000195898
COL ID 39X5Y
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INPN ID 807328
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Synonyms

Entada laotica Entada formosana Entada koshunensis Entada monostachya Mimosa entada Entada gogo Entada pursaetha Entada cirrhosa Entada entada Entada rheedei Entada pursaetha var. formosana