Millettia leucantha Kurz

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Millettia

Characteristics

Trees, 6-7 m tall. Bark gray. Branchlets smooth, striate, rusty pilose when young, gradually glabrescent, scattered with minute, smooth lenticels. Leaves (5 or)7-or 9-foliolate; rachis 15-50 cm, including petiole 4.5-14 cm, rusty pilose; stipels aciculate, ca. 1 mm, caducous; petiolules densely pubescent, 5-6 mm; leaflet blades lanceolate to oblong, 8-30 × 2.5-6 cm, papery, abaxially appressed puberulent, pilose along midvein, adaxially sparsely appressed puberulent except along midvein, secondary veins 6-10 on each side of midvein, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex caudate or long caudate. Pseudoracemes axillary or terminal, pendulous, slender, (15-)25-45 cm, brown pubescent; peduncle 1-4 cm, densely rusty scabrous; rachis nodes with 2-5 flowers. Pedicel 1-3 mm. Flowers 1.1-1.3 cm. Calyx 5-6 mm, densely brown pubescent; teeth shorter than tube, apex cuspidate. Corolla white; standard broadly orbicular, glabrous, base auriculate, with 2 minute calluses and claw ca. 2.5 mm. Ovary ca. 6 mm, densely sericeous, with (3 or)4 ovules. Legume oblong, flat, 10-17 × 2.7-3.5 cm, woody, brown to­mentose, apex obtuse, with a beak. Seeds (3 or)4 per legume, orbicular, ca. 1.5 × 6 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Jun-Nov.
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A small tree. It grows 6-7 m tall. The bark is grey. The leaves have 7-9 leaflets. These are oblong and 8-30 cm long by 3-6 cm wide. The flowers are in groups of 2-5 and are white. The pod is oblong and flat and 10-27 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They are woody. There are 3 or 4 seeds.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 6.0 - 7.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in limestone areas. In southern China it grows in sparse woodlands at about 1,100 m above sea level.
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Savannah forests and dry lower hills; at elevations up to 600 metres. Sparse woodlands; at elevations around 1,100 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The young leaves are eaten.
Uses food food additive medicinal wood
Edible fruits leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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Distribution

Millettia leucantha world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, and Thailand

Conservation status

Millettia leucantha threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:507428-1
WFO ID wfo-0000186164
COL ID 43D92
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Millettia pendula Millettia leucantha Pongamia pendula Millettia pendula Phaseoloides pendula Millettia buteoides var. siamensis