Dendrolobium baccatum

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Dendrolobium baccatum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Dendrolobium
Species:
D. baccatum
Binomial name
Dendrolobium baccatum
Synonyms[2]
  • Desmodium baccatum Schindl.
  • Desmodium clovissii Gagnep.

Dendrolobium baccatum is a species of flowering plants in the Fabaceae family. A shrub, it occurs in Mainland Southeast Asia. People use it for food and fuel.

This plant grows as a shrub some 1 to 2m tall.[3] It flowers in October and November, fruits in December and January and can possess leaves all year round (becoming deciduous during prolonged dry periods).[4]

Distribution

This species is found in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.[2]

Habitat

Dendrolobium baccatum is occurs in open and wet forests on peaty, clayey soils, and in scrub up to 900m elevation.[3][4] On islands of the Mekong river in Kratié and Stung Treng provinces, Cambodia, the shrub is medium abundant in Deciduous forest with bamboo and Mixed evergreen forest formations. It grows there on soils derived from a metamorphic sandstone bedrock, at 25 to 30m elevation.

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