How to identify Millettia dielsiana? A detailed guide to identification methods

1. Leaves

Millettia dielsiana has pinnately compound leaves, usually 15 to 30 cm long, with petioles 5 to 12 cm long that bear sparse soft hairs, and 2 pairs of leaflets spaced 3 to 5 cm apart. The leaves are papery, lanceolate, oblong or narrowly oblong, 5 to 15 cm long and 1.5 to 6 cm wide, with tips that taper abruptly or gradually and occasionally are bluntly rounded, and bases that are bluntly rounded, with a glossy upper surface.

2. Flowers

The panicle is terminal, broad and large, about 40 cm long; the inflorescence axis is slightly covered with yellowish-brown soft hairs; the flowers are solitary, the corolla is purplish-red, and the standard petal is broadly ovate or obovately broadly ovate.

3. Fruit

The pod is linear or oblong, 7 to 12 cm long and 1.5 to 2 cm wide, flat, densely covered with gray down on the surface, with very thin, nearly woody valves that open by splitting, and contains 3 to 5 seeds.