Phanera vahlii is a perennial creeper (liana) of the family Fabaceae native to the northern and central Indian subcontinent. It can grow as much as a year toward an eventual long, with a stem up to thick. The leaves are two-lobed, up to long, and almost as wide. The stems and petioles are covered with reddish hair (trichomes).
The roasted seeds of this woody climber are edible.
The flowers are 2âÂÂ3 cm diameter, white, fading to yellow with age, and have three fertile stamens and seven staminodes. The fruit is a pod 20âÂÂ30 cm long.
Phanera vahlii is found in the Himalaya from Sikkim and Nepal across India and Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, Pakistan and south to the Mumbai and Chennai areas; it grows at altitudes up to altitude.
In Hindi, it is called à ¤®à ¤¾à ¤²à ¥ malu, but also mahul, jallaur and jallur. In Nepali it is called à ¤Âà ¥Âà ¤°à ¥Âà ¤²à ¤¾ . In Odia, it is called à ¬¸à ¬¿à ¬Âà ¬³à ¬¿ Siali, à ®Âà ®²à ¯ à ®®à ®¨à ¯Âà ®¤à ®¾à ®°à ¯ in Tamil, and RúṠin Ho. In Telugu, it is called à ° à °¡à ±Âà °¡à °¾à °Âà ±Â. In Lepcha it is called bor laa rik, "a gigantic climber found in lower and middle hill forest up to 1200 m altitude, seeds and leaves have medicinal properties for impotency".