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Mucuna poggei

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Taubert

Common Names

• Urwaga

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Repunlic
• Congo
• Ghana
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Roadside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jul

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May

High climbing twining liana to 30m with glabrescent stems, trifoliate leaves nearly glabrous to 120mm x 80mm, terminal leaflet to 135mm x 85mm. Racemes to 350mm long of cream to orange flowers 30mm long, densely hairy legume to 105mm x 40mm

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• ILDIS