Shuteria involucrata (Wall.) Wight & Arn. ex Walp.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Shuteria

Characteristics

Herbs, 1-3 m. Stems twining, slender, densely pubescent or glabrous. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules ovate-lan­ceolate, persistent; petiole 2.5-7.5 cm; stipels linear; leaflets broadly ovate, ovate, or suborbicular, 1.5-6.5 × 1.1-5.5 cm, membranous to thinly papery, base rounded, apex rounded, slightly concave, with small mucro. Raceme axillary, axis 9-15 cm, lower 2 or 3 nodes with reduced, sessile, circular or reni­form leaflets; peduncle 1-2.5 cm. Flowers ca. 10 mm; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, persistent. Calyx tubular, 4-lobed; lobes lanceolate, shorter than tube. Corolla red, purple, or light purple; standard elliptic-obovate, apex slightly obtuse, slightly emarginate; wings oblong, subequal to keels. Ovary sessile. Legume linear, compressed, 3-5 × 0.2-0.6 cm, apex beaked, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds 5 or 6, brown, lustrous. Fl. Sep-Mar, fr. Nov-Mar.
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A climbing herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Often climbing over shrubs and trees in mountains, along roadsides, forest margins, under thickets; at elevations from 900-2,200 metres.
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It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses cover plant manure medicinal
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use Postnatal care (seed), Pregnancy complications (seed)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Shuteria involucrata world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, Cameroon, Indonesia, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20008187-1
WFO ID wfo-0000186208
COL ID 6YLNH
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Synonyms

Shuteria sinensis Glycine involucrata Shuteria vestita var. involucrata Shuteria vestita var. villosa Shuteria involucrata var. involucrata Shuteria involucrata var. sinensis Shuteria involucrata Shuteria suffulta var. sinensis