Deciduous armed tree, 10–20 m tall; to 1 m dbh; outer bark grayish, coarse, branches glabrous, sparsely armed with short prickles. Leaves trifoliolate; stipules caducous; petioles 8–18 cm long; rachis 4–8 cm long; petiole and rachis with 2 apical glands; leaflets ±ovate, ±rounded or acute at apex, glabrous above, with white appressed trichomes below; terminal leaflet 8–14 cm long, 7–12 cm wide; lateral leaflets smaller. Flowers thick, mostly 3 per node, in large, terminal, somewhat pendent racemes; pedicels stout, turned away from apex, ca 2 cm long; flowers showy, pale orange; stamens diadelphous, green, gradually arched, about halfway exserted. Legumes 15–20 cm long, 2 cm wide, densely brown-tomentose, pointed at apex, weakly ribbed on margins; seeds several, ellipsoid, dark brown, ca 12 mm long.

Vermifuge (bark, leaves)

Erythrina fusca Lour.
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Ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin (leaf); erysodine, erysopine, erysothiophine, erysothiovine, erysovine, erythraline, hypaphorine (seed).

For cancer (seeds); for fever, hepatosis, malaria, rheumatism, toothache, also for boils and fractures, as a poultice on fresh wounds (bark); for hematuria (grated wood); against beriberi (bark or root decoctions).