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Rhynchosia densiflora

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Roth) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Ethiopia
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• India
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• dry forest
• woodland
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Oct

Fruiting Times

Slender grey hairy herbaceous twiner or procumbent vine to 3m, with furrowed grey-downy stems, trifoliate leaves, leaflets with red dots, central leaflet 40mm x 40mm slightly pubescent beneath. Axillary racemes to 100mm with bracts to 10mm, of greenish-yellow or yellow-orange flowers striped red, grey pubescent calyx to 12mm, reddish corolla to 12mm. Grey pubescent pod or glabrous legume 16mm x 6mm, tomentose leaflets with resinous dots

Further References

• Jstor
• FCP
• Mobot
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• ILDIS