Pterolobium microphyllum

Pterolobium microphyllum
	P. hexapetalum in southern Cambodia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:	Caesalpinieae
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 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

Media related to Pterolobium microphyllum at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Pterolobium microphyllum at Wikispecies
Range and synonyms: Pterolobium hexapetalum, LegumeWeb, from ILDIS World Database of Legumes

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