Millettia sericea Wight & Arn.

Species

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Characteristics

A big woody climber. It grows 10-30 m long. The branches and pods have silky hairs. The leaves are alternate and compound. They have an uneven number of leaflets along the stalk. There are 5-9 leaflets. They have silvery scales. The leaves are 7-25 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. The flowering shoots are in the axils of leaves. The fruit are pods with a rusty coating. They aee 5-8 cm long. There are 1-4 seeds.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows along water courses and in swampy places. It grows up to 1,200 m above sea level in Indonesia.
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Scattered on river banks and in forest fringes at elevations from sea-level up to 1,200 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The young leaves and stem tips are eaten in salads.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves roots shoots
Therapeutic use Fever (unspecified), Ophthalmia (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Dysuria (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
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Germination treatment soaking
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Distribution

Millettia sericea world distribution map, present in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:507270-1
WFO ID wfo-0000206864
COL ID 43D43
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Millettia zollingeri Millettia sericea Millettia turgida Millettia argentea Millettia sericea var. malaccensis