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Spatholobus

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Spatholobus

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Spatholobus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. It includes 35 species of lianas which range from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina, southern China, and western Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines). It grows in seasonally-dry to evergreen tropical forest and thicket, often on rocky slopes and in disturbed areas. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae. Spatholobus acuminatus Spatholobus albus Spatholobus apoensis Spatholobus auricomus Spatholobus auritus Spatholobus biauritus Spatholobus bracteolatus Spatholobus crassifolius S

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderFabales
  5. FamilyFabaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos

General: Spatholobus is sister to Butea and Meizotropis (Ridder

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
121
With media
111
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
IGL-UNAM, GH, CAS, A, MICH, MO
Recorded in
Mexico, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia/Sabah, Kenya

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Spatholobus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. It includes 35 species of lianas which range from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina, southern China, and western Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines). It grows in seasonally-dry to evergreen tropical forest and thicket, often on rocky slopes and in disturbed areas. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae. Spatholobus acuminatus Spatholobus albus Spatholobus apoensis Spatholobus auricomus Spatholobus auritus Spatholobus biauritus Spatholobus bracteolatus Spatholobus crassifolius Spatholobus discolor Spatholobus dubius Spatholobus ferrugineus Spatholobus gengmaensis Spatholobus gyrocarpus Spatholobus harmandii Spatholobus hirsutus Spatholobus latibractea Spatholobus latistipulus Spatholobus littoralis Spatholobus macropterus Spatholobus maingayi Spatholobus merguensis Spatholobus multiflorus Spatholobus oblongifolius Spatholobus parviflorus Spatholobus persicinus Spatholobus pottingeri Spatholobus pulcher Spatholobus purpureus Spatholobus ridleyi Spatholobus sanguineus Spatholobus sinensis Spatholobus suberectus Spatholobus uniauritus Spatholobus varians Spatholobus viridis

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spatholobus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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