Pterolobium microphyllum

Pterolobium microphyllum

P. hexapetalum in southern Cambodia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	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 legume 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 inflorescenses 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.

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Range and synonyms: Pterolobium hexapetalum, LegumeWeb, from ILDIS World Database of Legumes
Publication and herbarium placement: Pterolobium microphyllum Miq., Tropicos

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