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Macrotyloma axillare

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(E. Meyer) Verdcourt

Common Names

• Axillaris
• Perennial Horse Gram
• Archer (Australia)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabawe

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• forest
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov

Herbaceous glabrous or finely downy liane to 3.5m. Bracts to 6mm, glabrous leaflets, terminal leaflet 50mm long, axillary inflorescences of 2-3 flowers, yellow flowers, glabrous calyx 3mm long, yellow corolla tinged green to 22mm long, standard 12mm across. glabrous green fruit 50mm x 8mm tipped with persistent style to 12mm long, twiner

Further References

• Mobot
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• ILDIS