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Aeschynomene lateritia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Harms

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkinba Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• bushland
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Sometimes climbing slender much-branched annual herb with wiry hairy stems. Pinnate leaves of 14-26 pairs with fimbriate margins, leaves to 30 mm long, leaflets to 7mm x 2mm. Axillary racemes of 8+ yellow flowers with trilobed bracts to 3mm long, bilobed toothed calyx,

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• BJS
• Jstor