Erythrina crista-galli L.

crista-galli: cock's comb.

Small tree. Leaves 3-foliolate, ovate to lanceolate in outline, with prickles on petiole and rhachis; glandular stipels present at the base of the petiolules; Leaflets ovate-oblong, entire, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, lax, leafy, the flowers sometimes borne in the axils of the leaves. Flowers crimson. Calyx tube as broad as long, truncate to shortly lobed, not splitting. Keel falcate, at least half as long as the standard. Seeds mottled, brown.

Brazil