Hylodesmum repandum (Vahl) H.Ohashi & R.R.Mill

Subshrubs, erect, 50-150 cm tall. Stem and petiole spreading pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 3-9 cm; leaflet blade rhombic to ovate, 5-8 × 3.5-6 cm, both surfaces sparsely to densely adpressed hairy, more densely especially on veins abaxially, base cuneate, margin repand, apex acute to shortly acute. Racemes or sometimes panicles, terminal or often termi­nal and axillary, 15-30 cm. Pedicel 1.5-3 cm, with spreading straight or uncinate hairs. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm; lobes longer than or equal to tube. Corolla red or orangish red; standard broadly elliptic, 8-10 × 7-8 mm, shortly clawed; wings narrowly ellip­tic, ca. 7 × 2 mm, clawed; keel ca. 10 × 3 mm, clawed. Legume often 3-or 4-jointed; articles slightly broadly subobovate, 6-3 × ca. 3 mm, densely uncinate pubescent; stipe ca. 5 mm; fruiting pedicel 2-4 cm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Nov. 2n = 22.

Often one of the dominant components of shaded places in dry evergreen forest or rain-forest or at the forest margin; riverine vegetation; Podocarpus forest; along roadsides; at elevations from 400-3,050 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.