Derris scandens (Roxb.) Benth.

Description:

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