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Millettia barteri

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Bentham) Dunn

Common Names

• Lomba (Bambindjere)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf or Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• S. Sudan
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Riverbank
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• May
• Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Aug
• Dec

Tall liana or woody climbing shrub with glabrate branches. Imparipinnate leaves 300mm x 225mm with 5-7 leaflets to 200mm x 125mm, glabrous above, downy on veins beneath becoming glabrescent. Purple flowers in spike-like axillary panicles to 300mm long, ferrugineous silky calyx to 4mm, rose-violet corolla, standard silky on back to 10mm across, wings & keel slightly shorter. Flat green fruit with brown hairs.

Further References

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