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Ophrestia radicosa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(A. Richard) Verdcourt

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Burundi
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Rwanda
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• clearings
• wooded grassland
• savanna

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous twining or procumbent vine with reddish-brown hirsute stems. Trifoliolate leaves with glabrate or pilose mucronate leaflets to 70mm x 30mm. Axillary racemes of 5-30 flowers, small bractlets to 1mm long, pale blue or purple flowers to 2.5mm long with calyx 3.5mm long, blue, lilac, purple, rose or pink corolla to 6.5mm long. Strigose pod to 25mm x 7mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• Hermann