Erythrina stricta

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| genus = Erythrina

| species = stricta

| authority = Roxb.

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| synonyms = * Corallodendron strictum (Roxb.) Kuntze

• Erythrina stricta var. yunnanensis (H.T.Tsai & T.T.Yu ex S.K.Lee) R.Sha
• Erythrina yunnanensis H.T.Tsai & T.T.Yu ex S.K.Lee
• Micropteryx stricta (Roxb.) Walp.

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Erythrina stricta is a species of trees in the family Fabaceae identified by William Roxburgh in 1832. Roxburgh W (1832) Fl. ind. ed. 1832, 3: 251. It is now placed in the subfamily Faboideae and the tribe Phaseoleae. This species has been recorded from the Indian subcontinent,Sanjappa M (1992) Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...Grierson,A.J.C. & Long,D.G., 1987 Flora of Bhutan,Vol.1.(Part 3). Edinburgh: RBG. IndochinaThuan N (1979) Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam. Vol. 17. and China. Lee SK, Chang BN (1995) Erythrina: Fl. Reip. Pop. Sinicae, 41 (Leguminosae 3). There is one valid variety: E. stricta var. suberosa''. It is called တောင်ကသစ် in Burmese, ทองเดือนห้า (RTGS: thongduean, IPA: [tʰɔːŋdɯːan]) in Thai and 勁直刺桐, Pinyin: jìn zhí cìtóng in Chinese and വെൺമുരിക്ക് in Malayalam.

Erythrina stricta contains the indole alkaloid Hypaphorine{{cite journal | url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np50017a002 | doi=10.1021/np50017a002 | title=Investigation of Erythrina SPP. IX. Chemical Constituents of Erythrina stricta Bark | journal=Journal of Natural Products | date=September 1981 | volume=44 | issue=5 | pages=526–529 | last1=Singh | first1=Harkishan | last2=Chawla | first2=Amrik Singh | last3=Kapoor | first3=Vijay K. | last4=Kumar | first4=Narotam | last5=Piatak | first5=D. M. | last6=Nowicki | first6=W. }}