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Mucuna flagellipes

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Vogel ex Hooker f.

Common Names

• Epi (Bambindjere)
• Efufe (Teturi)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• streamside
• swamp forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Glabrous perennial twining climbing shrub to 21m with glabrous stems. Trifoliolate glabrous leaves, central leaflet to 150mm x 75mm, lateral leaflets larger. Lax racemes to 2m or more long on zigzag rachis sometimes of greenish-yellow flowers, with silky bracteoles to 25mm+ long, calyx to 15mm with yellow bristles, pale yellow corolla to 40mm. Coriaceous bristly brown pod to 125mm x 40mm.

Further References

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