Fabaceae FAMILY

Christia obcordata

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Christia obcordata is a prostrate, herbaceous perennial plant with thin stems 15 - 60cm long growing from a rhizomatous rootstock[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant has been cultivated as a cover crop and soil improver317]. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental, valued especially for its variegated leaves that can look somewhat like a butterfly.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeE. Asia - China, Japan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, northern Australia.

HabitatOpen grasslands, waste slopes, thickets; at elevations below 500 metres in southern China[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. Dry slopes and roadsides, in grasslands and open vegetation, at elevations up to 1,000 metres[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].