Synonym: Wagatea spicata
Region: Western Ghats of India
BotanyHerb; creeper; robust woody climber.
Stem: recurved prickles on its branches.
Leaves; 23 to 30 cm long; compound, bipinnate; pinnae 4 to 6 pairs, 7.5 to 12 cm long; leaflets to 7 pairs, oblong, coriaceous, dark-green, rachis is armed with prickles.
Inflorescence: dense spicate racemes; 60 cm long; rachis grooved with soft hairs, armed with prickles.
Flowers: sessile.
Corolla: 5 petals, inserted on top of the calyx-tube, obovate-spathulate, dark orange. 1 cm long, doesn't open fully.
Calyx: scarlet,
Androecium: 10 stamens.
Fruit: linear oblong pod; swollen above the seeds, constricted inn between.
Seeds: 3 to 4; oblong, hard, bony.