Gleditsia fera (Lour.) Merr.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Gleditsia

Characteristics

Trees, 3-24 m tall. Branches grayish brown. Spines robust, branched, terete at base, to 13 cm. Leaves pinnate, 11-18 cm; rachis sulcate, glabrous or pilose; petiolules ca. 1 mm; leaflets 5-9 pairs, adaxially deep brown, shiny, obliquely elliptic to rhombic-oblong, 2-7(-12) × 1-3(-5) cm, papery to thinly leath­ery, abaxially glabrous, adaxially glabrous or sometimes pubes­cent on midvein, midvein inclined to one side at base of blade, reticulate veinlets crowded, slender, conspicuously raised, base obliquely cuneate or rounded and oblique, margin crenate, some­times shallowly, obtusely serrate, apex rounded and emarginate. Flowers several in cymules, polygamous, greenish white, cym­ules in axillary or terminal racemes 7-16 cm. Male flowers: 6-7 mm in diam.; receptacle ca. 2.5 mm; sepals 5, triangular-lan­ceolate, 2.5-3 mm, outside densely puberulent; petals 5, ob­long, both sides puberulent; stamens 10; rudimentary pistil linear-terete, 4-5 mm, villous. Bisexual flowers: 8-10 mm in diam.; calyx and petals similar to those of male flowers, but calyx with a villous ring inside at base; stamens 5 or 6; anthers acute at apex; ovary densely brownish yellow silky, many ovuled. Legume compressed, 13.5-26(-41) × 2.5-3(-6.5) cm, straight or slightly curved, occasionally twisted, valves leathery, densely brownish yellow puberulent when young, glabrescent and becoming deep brown to blackish brown when old, apex with beak 2-5 mm; stipe 5-10 mm. Seeds numerous, brown to blackish brown, compressed or lenticular, ovoid to oblong, 8-11(-14) × 5-6(-11) mm, smooth. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 16.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Gentle slopes, mountain valleys, forests, beside villages, near roads and in sunny places at elevations from 300-1,000 metres. Rain forests in the Philippines, at elevations up to 250 metres, occasionally to 900 metres.
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Gentle slopes, mountain valleys, forests, beside villages, near roads and in sunny places at elevations from 300-1,000 metres. Rain forests in the Philippines, at elevations up to 250 metres, occasionally to 900 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode seedlings
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Gleditsia fera world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mauritius, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:496584-1
WFO ID wfo-0000193321
COL ID 3G735
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 670753
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Synonyms

Mimosa fera Gleditsia formosana Gleditsia thorelii Gleditsia fera Gleditsia pachycarpa Gleditsia pachycarpa Gleditschia formosana Gleditschia thorelii