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Neorautanenia mitis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(A. Richard) Verdcourt

Common Names

• Insatembwa (Kiha)
• Iwayo (Kisafwa)
• Yombo-nguru (Kizigua)
• Payamomo (Kinyaturu)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Secondary vegetation

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Mar
• May
• Nov
• Dec

Twining herbaceous climber or trailer with downy stems, trifoliatew leaves glabrescent above downy beneath, mucronate terminal leaflet to 85mm long, racemes to 100mm long with deciduous bracts to 8mm, flowers yellow-purple outside, blue-purple inside, velvety calyx to 6mm, pale yellow corolla to 6mm, fruit with brown irritating hairs, large underground tuber

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• ILDIS