Callerya cinerea (Bentham) Schot

 Callerya cinerea (Bentham) Schot, Blumea. 39: 17. 1994.

Callerya cinerea (Benth.) Schot; Photos Hoang Thanh Son

Vietnamese name: 

Khâu hương, Dây đậu dại, Thàn mát to. 

Chinese name: 

灰毛鸡血藤 hui mao ji xue teng

English name: 

Latin name: 

Callerya cinerea (Benth.) Schot 

Family: 

Fabaceae

Synonym name:

Millettia bockii Harms

Millettia bodinieri H. Lév.

Millettia cinerea Benth.

Millettia cinerea sensu auct.

Millettia cinerea var. yunnansis Pamp.

Millettia congestiflora T.P.Chen

Millettia dielsiana Diels

Millettia dowardi Collett & Hemsl.

Millettia gentiliana H.Lev.

Millettia longipedunculata Z.Wei

Millettia obovata Gagnep.

Millettia oosperma Dunn

Millettia sericosema Hance

Millettia sphaerosperma Z.Wei

Phaseolodes cinereum (Benth.) Kuntze

Pongamia cinerea Graham

Pongamia heterocarpa Baker

Pongamia oblonga Graham

Pongamia palustris Graham

Pongamia paniculata Graham

Description: 

Shrubs, scandent, to 6 m. Stems terete, rough, ridged, gla­brescent. Leaves 5-foliolate; rachis 15-25 cm, including petiole 3-4 cm; stipels ca. 4 mm; petiolules ca. 4 mm; leaflet blades obovate-elliptic, basal pair ca. 5.5 × 3 cm, lateral pair and ter­minal one ca. 15 × 7 cm with laterals rather smaller than termi­nal, papery, abaxially sparsely hirsute and particularly evident on veins, adaxially glabrous except midvein, base broadly cune­ate, rounded, or rarely subcordate, apex acute. Panicles termi­nal, 10-15 cm; flowering branchlets spreading to 6 cm, with dense appressed trichomes. Flowers 1.2-1.6 cm. Corolla red to mauve; standard ovate, outside rusty sericeous, basally thick­ened and emarginate. Ovary shortly stipitate, tomentose, with 5-7 ovules. Legume linear-oblong, ca. 13 × 2 cm, inflated but contracted between seeds, densely gray pubescent. Seeds 1-4 per legume, dark violet, ellipsoid, 1.4-1.8 cm. 

Flower and fruid season: 

Flower Feb-Jul, fruid Aug-Nov. 

Distribution: 

This species is distributed in China (SE Xizang, S Yunnan), Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam. In VietNam, found in Lai Châu (Phong Thổ), Lào Cai (Sa Pa), Cao Bằng (Trùng Khánh), Nghệ An, Ninh Bình. 

Ecological: 

Secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests by ravines; at elevations of 500-1200 m. 

Use Medicinal: 

Coughing (Trunk). 

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- efloras.org

- ipni.org