Erythrina variegata L.

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution

Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 20 - 900 m.; Llanura del Caribe, Valle del Cauca.

Morphology General Habit

Árbol

Distribution

Biogeografic region: Caribbean. Elevation range: 20–900 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Valle del Cauca.

Habit

Tree.

Conservation

IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC.

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Vulnerable

Ecology

Africa: Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; mangrove., Cultivated

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Tree

Vernacular

Amapola, Anzava, Arbre a Corail, Atae, Bois Inmortel Vrai, Dabdab, Dadap, Easter Flower, Era-badu, Era-mudu, Holocauste, Immortel Grand, Immortelle, Indian Coral Tree, Katu-eramadu, Mandara, Mapoleona, Motel, Mouroque, Mourouc, Mourouque, Mullu-murukku, M

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular

caraqueño

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit

Tree 6–12 m. tall, with much branched crown; branches prickly; flowering when leaves not present.

Morphology Stem

Stems pale, with short straight black prickles, at first densely stellate tomentose but soon glabrous.

Morphology Leaves

Leaflets ovate to broadly rhomboid, rather thin, 4–19·5 cm. long, 3–21 cm. wide, acute to acuminate (often bluntly) at the apex, truncate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, at first sparsely stellate pubescent or tomentose beneath, later almost glabrous, sometimes variegated (not in Africa); midrib not prickly; petiole 2–20 cm. long, not prickly; rhachis 1–7 cm. long; petiolules 0·5–1·4 cm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences dense, many-flowered, covered with a deciduous stellate ferruginous tomentum; rhachis 10–20 cm. long; peduncle 7–17 cm. long; pedicels 8–11 mm. long, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles oblong, 2–3 mm. long, 0·5–1 mm. wide, soon deciduous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx fusiform in bud, narrowed above and terminating in 2 filiform lobes 2–4 mm. long and a thickened knob, later splitting deeply on the vexillar side to form a spathe, 2–4 cm. long, at first covered with a ferruginous stellate tomentum, later glabrous, dark-lined when dry.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard dark crimson or scarlet, short-clawed, elliptic, 5–6(–7) cm. long, 2–2·5 cm. wide, rounded; keel and wings about equal, ± a third the length of the standard.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods stipitate, sausage-shaped or elongate-cylindrical, 12–30(–40) cm. long, 2–3 cm. wide, (3–)4–13-seeded, moderately but not deeply constricted between the seeds, densely stellate tomentose when very young, soon glabrous; valves reticulately veined like a ground-nut pod.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds pinkish or purplish-red, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, sometimes slightly curved, longest dimension 1·3–2 cm., shorter dimension 0·8–1·2 cm., 0·8–1·1 cm. thick; hilum oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, 5–8·5 mm. long.

Habitat

Coastal bushland on dry edge of Avicennia mangrove-swamp and other associations just above high-water mark

Distribution

T6 Z

Use

Chemical products, Domestic, Environmental, Fibre, Food and Drink, Forage, Medicine, Toxins, Wood