Millettia pachycarpa Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Millettia

Characteristics

Lianas, to 15 m. Branchlets brown, yellow tomentose when young, glabrescent, scattered with brown lenticels. Leaves 13-17-foliolate; rachis 30-50 cm, including petiole 7-9 cm; leaflet blades elliptic-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 10-18 × 3.5-4.5 cm, papery, abaxially brown appressed sericeous, adaxially flat and glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute. Pseudora­cemes with 2-6 branches beneath new stems, 15-30 cm, brown tomentose; rachis nodes with 2-5 flowers clustered on a 1-3 mm spur. Pedicel 6-8 mm. Flowers 2.1-2.3 cm. Calyx ca. 6 mm. Corolla lilac; standard obovate, glabrous or ciliate on api­cal margin, without basal calluses. Ovary tomentose, with 5-7 ovules. Legume dark brown, oblong or when 1-seeded ovoid, 5-25 × ca. 4 cm, inflated, densely covered with pale yellow warts, glabrescent; valves thick, woody. Seeds 1-5 per legume, dark brown, reniform, 2.5-3.5 × ca. 2 cm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Nov. 2n = 22.
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A woody vine. The stems are twining. It can grow 15 m long. It has rough pale yellow warts. The leaves have 13-17 leaflets. The flowers are lilac coloured. The fruit are dark brown oblong pods with yellow warts.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 12.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. In Yunnan. It grows between 100-2,000 m above sea level.
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Evergreen broad-leaved forests in valleys; at elevations from 100-2,000 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

The flowers are used as a potherb. Many parts of the plant are poisonous.
Uses fiber medicinal poison potherb
Edible flowers
Therapeutic use Skin diseases, infectious (bark), Anthelmintics (leaf), Analgesics (root), Anthelmintics (root), Anti-inflammatory agents (root), Fishes, poisonous (root), Hematologic diseases (root), Hypolipidemic agents (root), Insecticides (root), Parasympatholytics (root), Pruritus (root), Scabies (root), Sprains and strains (root), Wound healing (root), Insecticides (seed), Skin diseases (seed), Insecticide (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Ovocide (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Antineoplastic agents (whole plant)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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Distribution

Millettia pachycarpa world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Taiwan, Province of China

Conservation status

Millettia pachycarpa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:507475-1
WFO ID wfo-0000185902
COL ID 6RL6M
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Synonyms

Millettia dunnii Millettia pachycarpa Millettia taiwaniana Whitfordiodendron taiwaniana Millettia fooningensis Pongamia taiwaniana Phaseoloides pachycarpa Whitfordiodendron taiwanianum