Fairly common in some northern islands in the mangrove habitats Leaves are used to kill a wide range of creatures including insects, earthworms and fish. The plant is used in local medicine as a stimulant and antispasmodic and prescribed for rheumatism, chronic paralysis and 15 d
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Leaves are used to kill a wide range of creatures including insects, earthworms and fish. The plant is used in local medicine as a stimulant and antispasmodic and prescribed for rheumatism, chronic paralysis and 15 dysmenorrhea.
Woody climbers, stem sparsely for lenticellate. Leaves pinnate, alternate, to 15 cm; leaflets 3-5, oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-9 × 2-4 cm, base obtuse, margin entire, apex acuminate; petiole to 10 cm. Racemes to 12 cm; pedicel to 4 mm. Flowers to 1 cm across. Calyx-tube 4 mm. Petals rose; standard × × orbicular, 1.2 0.9 cm; wings 1.2 0.2 cm; × keels 1 0.4 cm. Staminal sheath 8 mm. Ovary 4 mm. Pod ovoid or orbicular, base and apex obtuse, glabrous, winged; seeds 1 or 2.
native range
Australia, Madagascar and Papua New Guinea
distribution
Pantropical
english names
Common derris
flowering fruiting
January - October
occurrence maldives
Fairly common in some northern islands in the mangrove habitats