Family: FabaceaeDistribution:Common and gregarious on hedges and trees in forest areas. Distributed in India, SriLanka, Bangladesh, China and N.Australia. Photographed at velugonda hills of Eastrenghats of A.P.Description: Large woody climber, Leaves imparipinnate, Leaflets 2.5-4x0.8-2cm, elliptic-oblong, retuse, base rounded or cuneate,coriaceous, shining and glabrous above, puberulous below.Flowers 1-1.5cm long white in 10-20cm long axillary drooping racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small, cauducous. Calyx tube companulate, teeth very short, purple in color. corolla much exerted, standard obovate, wings obliquely oblong. Stamens 10 monodelphous, anthers uniform, versatile. ovary sessile, few ovuled. Pod 4.5-8cm thin indehiscent , winged along the upper suture only. It is used as fish poison.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS
Ormosia monospermasynonyms: Sophora monosperma (basionym), Ormosia dasycarpaIn botanic garden the tree is labelled as Ormosia dasycarpaCommon Names: Necklace Tree Bead Tree, Snake wood, Caconier, Huayruro (in Spanish)Origin: Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago; West IndiesNorthern South America: VenezuelaPhotographed in Brisbane Botanic Garden (Mt. Coot-tha)
Known as Purple Broom and as September Bush. This species is native to southern and eastern Africa, but has been planted more widely. Photo from near Liparamba, Tanzania.