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Sophora mollis (Royle) Graham ex Baker

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs, ca. 1 m high. Branchlets gray-white hairy. Leaves 12-25 cm; petiole base slightly inflated; leaflets (11-)19-35, ovate, elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, (10-)15-22(-27) × 5-9(-15) mm, leathery, sparsely hairy or glabrescent, base cuneate to rounded, apex rounded or retuse. Racemes 5-10 cm. Flowers 20-26 mm; pedicel 5-20 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2-3(-3.5) mm. Calyx sparsely hairy; teeth short to absent. Stan­dard rounded, claw equal to 1/2 of petal; wings oblong, rugose in upper part; keel similar to wings, 1-auriculate. Stamens 10, free. Legumes winged, obviously constricted, quadrangular. Seeds 1-7, red-brown, oblong, ca. 8 mm.
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An erect shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 90-120 cm tall. The young shoots have fine hairs. There are 19-35 leaflets. The are opposite or alternate. They are 1.2-2.5 cm long and narrowly oval. The flowers are in groups and the flowers are about 1.5-2.6 cm long. The fruit is a pod 7.5-13.0 cm long. It has 5-10 joints.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.0
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in Kasmir and the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. In Yunnan.
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Rocks in dry valleys, at elevations from 1,200-2,000 metres. Often gregarious on hillsides.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

CAUTION: This plant is poisonous.
Uses medicinal poison wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Headache (root), Insect repellents (seed), Lice infestations (seed), Alopecia (unspecified), Hairblack (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Pediculicide (unspecified), Eye pain (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 29
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Productivity -

Distribution

Sophora mollis world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, China, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Nepal, Pakistan, and Tajikistan

Conservation status

Sophora mollis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77084756-1
WFO ID wfo-0000185553
COL ID 6Z6G6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Edwardsia mollis Edwardsia persica Sophora buxbaumii Sophora hortensis Sophora mollis Edwardsia hortensis Keyserlingia buxbaumii Keyserlingia hortensis Keyserlingia mollis Sophora persica Indigofera arghawan Sophora mollis subsp. mollis Sophora griffithii subsp. hortensis Sophora interrupta var. ferruginea Keyserlingia mollis var. ferruginea

Lower taxons

Sophora mollis subsp. griffithii Sophora mollis subsp. duthiei Sophora mollis subsp. sylvestris
WorldFloraDB 2024