美丽相思子(原亚种) mei li xiang si zi (yuan ya zhong)

Lianas, climbing. Stem sparsely yellow strigose. Leaflets suboblong, 0.7-4 × 0.4-1 cm, sparsely white strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially, rounded at base, truncate and with mucro at apex. Flowers 6-8 mm. Calyx white strigose. Corolla pink or purple. Legumes 3.2-9 × 0.8-1.5 cm, densely white hairy, de­hiscent, with 6-12 seeds. Seeds black-brown, lustrous, elliptic.

Valley forests; 400-3000 m. Guangxi, Yunnan [Bangladesh, Bhu­tan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pap­ua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam].