WorldFloraDB - Erythrina subumbrans

Characteristics

Trees, 12-15 m tall. Trunk up to 60 cm d.b.h., with robust prickles. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules ovate, deciduous; petiole 10-12 cm, without prickles; petiolules ca. 7 mm; leaflets ovate-triangular, 10-15 cm × 7-10 mm, membranous, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 7 on each side, obviously convex abaxially, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Raceme 7-10 cm. Flowers ca. 4 cm. Calyx campanulate, 2-lobed, silky hairy. Standard scarlet, elliptic, 5-6 cm, apex obtuse, shortly clawed; wings obovate; keels subequal to wings. Ovary glabrous. Legume ca. 15 × 2.5 cm, with seeds restricted to apical part, indehiscent. Seeds 1-3, black. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. to next Mar.

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A tall tree. It grows to 15-23 m high. Some kinds have prickles and some do not. The leaves are alternate and have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are smooth. The side 2 leaflets are round and 10-20 cm long. The end leaflet is larger. The flowering groups are 22 cm long. The flowers are red. The fruit are pods 10-14 cm long and 2-2.5 cm wide. They contain 1-5 seeds.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

15.0 - 20.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It needs light. It grows in dry open forest. It is used as shade for cacao and coffee. In Samoa it grows from sea level to 700 m altitude. In Indonesia it grows between 300-1,500 m above sea level. In southern China it grows between 300-600 m above sea level. In Yunnan.

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Moist valleys, near streams, in open locations and secondary forest at low and medium elevations.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The very young leaves are steamed and then eaten in salads. The flowers are used as a potherb.

Uses	animal food coffee substitute environmental use fodder food forage forestry green manure hedge leaf vegetable manure material medicinal ornamental poison potherb shade social use support tea wood
Edible	flowers leaves
Therapeutic use	Splenic diseases (bark), Cough (leaf), Headache (leaf), Hemorrhage (leaf), Inflammation (leaf), Inflammatory bowel diseases (leaf), Postnatal care (leaf), Cooling effect on body (leaf), Antineoplastic agents (root), Malaria (root), Tuberculosis (root), Collyrium (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Lactagogue (unspecified), Menorrhagia (unspecified), Splenomegaly (unspecified), Headache (unspecified), Ophthalmia (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Plants can be grown by seeds.

Mode	cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days)	10 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°)	21 - 23
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	soaking
Minimum temperature (C°)	1
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Images

Erythrina subumbrans unspecified picture

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494601-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000185021
COL ID	6GRND
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	448580
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Erythrina holosericea Erythrina sumatrana Erythrina lithosperma Erythrina mysorensis Erythrina subumbrans Hypaphorus subumbrans Erythrina hypaphorus Corallodendron sumatranum Erythrina secundiflora Erythrina holoserica Corallodendron holosericeum Corallodendron lithospermum Erythrina lithosperma var. inermis Erythrina lithosperma var. armata Hypaphorus subumbrans var. inermis Hypaphorus subumbrans var. aculeata

WorldFloraDB 2024

Erythrina subumbrans (Hassk.) Merr.

Erythrina (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Erythrina