云南云实 yun nan yun shi

Lianas. Branchlets with recurved prickles. Stipules absent; leaf rachis ca. 20 cm, with recurved prickles; pinnae 3 pairs, opposite; petiolules 3-4 mm; leaflets 2 pairs per pinna, oppo­site, adaxially shiny, ovate-lanceolate, 6-9 × 2.5-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, base slightly rounded or sometimes broadly cuneate, apex obtuse-acuminate. Flowers not seen. Leg­ume oblong to elliptic, slightly asymmetric or obliquely asym­metric, 4-7 × 2.5-3 cm, leathery, base broadly cuneate, apex obtuse, beaked. Seed solitary, compressed. Fr. Oct.

● Thickets at riversides, sparse woodlands at roadsides; ca. 600 m. Yunnan (Xishuangbanna).