Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr., Philipp. J. Sci., C 9: 86. 1914.
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Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr., Philipp. J. Sci., C 9: 86. 1914.
= Entada gandu Hoffmanns., Verz. Pfl.-Kult. 8: 274. 1824.
= Entada parrana Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 325. 1825.
= Entada adenanthera DC., Mém. Légum.: 422. 1826.
= Entada scandens (L.) Benth., J. Bot. (Hooker) 4: 332. 1841.
= Entada rumphii Scheff., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.- Indië 32: 412. 1871.
= Entada scandens var. aequilatera Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 22(89): 247. 1926.
Type.
INDONESIA. Maluku, Amboina, illustration of Faba marina major in Rumphius Herb. Amb. 5: 5-8, tab. 4. 1747 .
Basionym.
Lens phaseoloides L., Herb. Amboin. (Linn.) 18. 1754.
Description.
Liana to 40 m long, stems often flattened and spirally twisted, with pit nectaries at nodes. Leaves: petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, rachis 4.3-7.7 cm long, terminating in a bifurcating tendril; pinnae 1-2 pairs per leaf, 6-20 cm long, each pinna with 1-2(-3) pairs of leaflets; leaflets opposite, coriaceous, elliptic or narrowly obovate, sometimes asymmetrical about the mid-vein, 4.5-10 × 1.8-6.3 cm and increasing in size distally, apex acute to acuminate, retuse, base obtuse, mid-rib and margins puberulous (Fig. 18A View Figure 18 ). Inflorescence: a spike, 11.5-30 cm long, axillary, solitary or fascicled on short shoots, puberulous (Fig. 18B View Figure 18 ). Flowers: sessile to sub-sessile, staminate or bisexual, mildly fragrant; calyx cupular, glabrous, 0.8-1.2 mm long; petals green with base reddish; stamen filaments 4-6.5 mm long, white turning yellow; ovary slender, glabrous (Fig. 18C View Figure 18 ). Fruit: a gigantic, torulose craspedium, 100-135(-200) × 7-15 cm, straight to slightly curved, with transverse septa between seeds dividing the fruit into one-seeded segments which, upon ripening, fall from the persistent replum; segments 6.5-7.5 cm long; epicarp woody, endocarp chartaceous; 9-16-seeded (Fig. 18D View Figure 18 ). Seeds: subcircular, laterally compressed, but convex with an angular margin, 3.5-5.5 × 3.3-4.5 × 1-1.5 cm, hard, reddish-brown, pleurogram lacking; an air-filled cavity between the cotyledons.
Distribution.
Subtropical Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan (south), throughout Malesia, Australia (east coast of northern Queensland), Micronesia, southwest Pacific.
Habitat and ecology.
A wide variety of habitats from back-mangrove and lowland freshwater swamp, riparian vegetation and lowland rainforest up to montane forest, 0-1700 m alt.
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