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7. Erythrina variegata L.wfo-0000181193

Herb. Amboin.: 10. 1754; Alston in Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6: 80. 1931; Krukoff, J. Arnold Arbor. 20(2): 226. 1939 & 53(1): 132. 1972; Bullock, Kew Bull. 20(2): 294. 1966; Krukoff & Barneby, Lloydia 37(3): 431, t. 9. 1974; Thuân in Aubrév. & J.-F.Leroy, Fl. Cambodge, Laos & Vietnam 17: 22, pl. 1, f. 1–7. 1979; Grierson & D.G.Long, Fl. Bhutan 1(3) 684. 1987; Dassanayake in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 7: 251. 1991; R.Sha & M.G.Gilbert in C.Y.Wu et al., Fl. China 10: 238. 2010.


Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.



Synonyms & Citations :

Erythrina corallodendron var. occidentalis L., Sp. Pl. 2: 706. 1753.— E. variegata var. orientalis (L.) Merr., Interpr. Rumph. Herb. Amboin.: 276. 1917.— E.rythrina orientalis (L.) Murray, Commentat. Raegiae Sci. Gott. 8: 35, t. 1. 1787; Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 1: 627. 1963.
Erythrina indica Lam., Encycl. 2(1): 391. 1786; Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 368. 1877; Baker in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2(4): 188. 1879; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 2: 63. 1894; Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 2(4): 415, f. 40, 1–5. 1916; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 1: 578. 1922.
Erythrina rostrata Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 1: 580. 1922; Craib, Fl. Siam 1: 440. 1928.


Description : Tree up to 27 m tall, deciduous; trunk and branches with prickles, straight and minute blackish prickles in younger branches; bark smooth, with green vertical lines, greenish grey. Stipules lanceolate, ca 1 cm long, caducous. Leaves chartaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sometimes with stellate hairs on veins; petioles 10–15 cm long; rachis ca 4 cm long, petioles and rachis with stellate hairs. Leaflets: terminal leaflet broadly ovate to deltoid, 7.5–15 by 7–12 cm, apex acuminate to obtuse, base broadly cuneate, rounded, truncate or slightly cordate, margin entire; lateral veins 5–6 pairs; a pair of glandular stipels at petiolule base of terminal leaflet auriculate, ca 1 mm in diameter; lateral leaflets similar but smaller than the terminal leaflet; petiolules 0.8–1 cm long; glandular stipels at petiolule base, semi-oblong, 2–3 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, horizontal, 17–30 cm long. Flowers secund or sub-secund, with 3–4 flowers per fascicle; bracts and bracteoles oblong, 2–3 by 1 mm, caducous; pedicels ca 1 cm long, finely hairy. Calyx spathaceous, 2–3 by 1 cm, apex with 2 subulate appendages, stellate hairs, glabrescent. Corolla dark red, orange or rarely white; standard elliptic to oblanceolate, 5–7 by 1–2.5 cm, glabrous, apex obtuse, claw 10–22 mm long; wings and keel subequal; wings obovate to oblong, oblique, ca 12–20 by 5–8 mm; keel obovate, oblique, free, 15–18 by 8–10 mm. Stamens ca 4 cm long, glabrous. Ovary with stellate hairs; style glabrescent, long stipitate. Pods torulose, constricted between seeds, apex acute to acuminate, 15–30 by 2–3 cm, woody, glabrous when mature. Seeds 3–8, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, 9–17 by 8–10 mm, purplish red.


Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Inthanon NP), Lampang (Mae Mo); CENTRAL: Saraburi, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok); NORTH-EASTERN: Loei (Nong Hin), Kalasin (Somdet); SOUTH-WESTERN: Prachuap Khiri Khan (Bang Saphan); SOUTH-EASTERN: Chonburi (Si Racha), Rayong (Kaeng), Trat (Ko Chong); PENINSULAR: Surat Thani (Butang, Tan Chang Po), Phuket, Trang (Ko Kra Dan, Khao Chong), Satun (Ko Tarutao), Songkhla, Pattani (Sabarang).


Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia (type), the Philippines, New Guinea.


Ecology : Often cultivated as an ornamental, also found in mixed deciduous and dry everygreen forests; 0–1,150 m alt. Flowering: March–May; fruiting: April–August.


Vernacular : Thong ban (ทองบ้าน), thong phueak (ทองเผือก)(Northern), thong lang dang (ทองหลางด่าง), thong lang lai (ทองหลางลาย)(Bangkok).


Uses: Ornamental.


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