Ormosia xylocarpa Merr. & L.Chen

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Ormosia

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, 12-20 m, 0.4-1.5 m d.b.h. Bark of stems gray or brown, glabrous. Branches densely appressed tawny pu­bescent. Leaves imparipinnate, (8-)11-24.5 cm; petiole 3-5 cm; rachis 3.2-5.4 cm, prolonged 6-10 mm below terminal leaflet; petiole and rachis sparsely or densely appressed yellow pubescent; leaflets (3-)5-7; petiolule (4-)7-12 mm, grooved, densely appressed short pubescent; blades oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, 3-14 × 1.3-5.3 cm, thickly leathery, densely or sparsely appressed short tawny pubescent abaxially, more densely so along midvein, glabrous adaxially, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margin slightly repand, apex obtuse or acute. Panicles terminal, 8-14 cm, pubescent. Flowers 2-2.5 cm, fra­grant; pedicel ca. 8 mm. Calyx ca. 10 mm; teeth oblong, ca. 8 mm, subequal, densely appressed short brownish yellow serice­ous. Corolla white or pink. Ovary densely appressed short tawny sericeous; ovules 7-9. Legumes obovate to oblong or rhombic, 5-7 × 2-4 × ca. 1.5 cm, compressed, slightly rounded around seeds; valves thickly woody, ventral suture margin re­flexed outward, densely appressed short yellowish brown seri­ceous, internally septate. Seeds 1-5, red, prolate or subor­bicular, slightly inequilateral, 0.8-1.3 × 0.6-0.8 × 0.4-0.5 cm, glossy, often viscid when moist; hilum small, 1.5-2.5 mm, somewhat oblique. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Oct-Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 12.0 - 20.0
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OctNovDec
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AprMayJun
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OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

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Distribution

Ormosia xylocarpa world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494798-1
WFO ID wfo-0000200656
COL ID 6T6TS
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Synonyms

Ormosia polysperma Fedorovia xylocarpa Ormosia xylocarpa