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Millettia peguensis Ali
Synonym : Millettia ovalifolia Kurz
Family
: Papilionoideae
Local Names
: Moulien Rose Wood
Flowering
and fruiting period:
December – May
Distribution: Native of South East
Asia
Habitat: Grown as garden plant and
ornamental tree
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: Ornamental, Timber
yielding
Key
Characters:
Small deciduous trees. Leaf imparipinnately
compound; leaflets 5-7, elliptical, obtuse, acute to acuminate; stipules
absent. Inflorescence a raceme, flowers solitary or fascicled; bract absent.
Bracteoles ca 1 mm long. Pedicel ca 4-7 mm long. Calyx ca 1-2 mm long, glabrous
except the margin, teeth inconspicuous. Standard petal 7-8 mm long, glabrous,
auriculate. Disc absent. Ovary pubescent, ovules many. Fruit linear glabrous to subglabrous.
