Biology:Pterolobium microphyllum

Short description: Species of legume

Pterolobium microphyllum
Pterolobium microphyllum in southern Cambodia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Genus:	Pterolobium
Species:	P. microphyllum
Binomial name
Pterolobium microphyllum Miq.
Synonyms
Cantuffa microphylla (Miq.) Kuntze P. densiflorum sensu auct. P. indicum A. Rich. var. microphyllum (Miq.)Baker P. insigne Miq. P. platypterum Gagnep. P. punctatum Hemsl. var. opacum Gagnep. P. schmidtianum Harms

Pterolobium microphyllum is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. They are perennial climbing shrubs that occur from Burma eastwards to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

They bear erect creamy coloured inflorescences and colourful samaroid fruit typical of their genus, and have pairs of thorns below the rachis of their bipinnate leaves. The minute leaflets and the rachis have a rufous tone before they mature.

External links

• Range and synonyms: Pterolobium hexapetalum, LegumeWeb, from ILDIS World Database of Legumes

Wikidata ☰ Q7256810 entry