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Rhynchosia pycnostachya

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(de Candolle) Meikle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde Islands
• Chad
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• rocky slopes
• forests
• gallery forest margin
• cut-over woodland
• cultivated land
• disturbed forest
• savanna
• shrubland
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Liana or twining glabrous or slightly downy woody shrub with trifoliate leaves central leaflet to 125mm long glabrous both surfaces, 100mm long axillary racemes with silky bracts. of cream flowers, 20mm long calyx grey-pubescent, bright red corolla 20mm long, & legume with grey velvety down 20mm x 6mm, rust red fruit, glossy green leaves

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• FCP
• APDC
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• ILDIS