Botanical name: Sophora benthamii    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Sophora acuminata

Eastern Necklace Pod is a shrub 1-3 m tall. Branches are light brown velvet-hairy, be­coming hairless. Leaves are 15-25 cm; stipules bristly, brown velvet-hairy; leaflets 9-19; leaflet-stalks about 1 mm; blades papery, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceshaped, rarely obovate, at branch-ends leaf­let largest, up to 10 cm, lateral leaflets smaller, veinlets obvious, base wedge-shaped or rounded, tip tapering, with a short sharp point. Flowers are borne in slender racemes, sometimes curved, 10-15 cm long, opposite leaves. Flowers are white or pale yellow; standard oblong or obovate-lanceshaped, about 16 x 6 mm, tip flat, narrowing to claw from middle; wings ovate-oblong, 1-eared, rugose; keel shorter than wings, 1-eared, claw equal to blade. Sta­mens are 10, somewhat fused at base. Bracts are bristly, gray-brown hairy. Sepal-cup obliquely bell-shaped; teeth 5, blunt. Pods are strongly beaded, 12-16 x 1-1.2 cm, velvet-hairy, densely so where constricted, beak long. Seeds are 2-4, dark red or red, about 12 x 7 mm, pointed at both ends. Eastern Necklace Pod is found in valleys at altitudes of 1300-2500 m, in Xizang, Yunnan, Bhutan, NE India, Myan­mar. Flowering: April-September.

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