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Sphenostylis stenocarpa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Hochstetter ex A. Richard) Harms

Common Names

• African Yam Bean

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Congo
• Central African Republic
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Wooded savanna.

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Oct

Fruiting Times

Glabrous climbing or prostrate vine to 3m, with glabrous leaflets, central one to 100mm, racemes to 12 flowers, mauve, pink or purple flowers with a green stripe in centre, glabrous calyx to 5mm, red cocorlla to 25mm, standard 18mm across, pod to 125mm x 5mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Rubatzky 1997
• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List
• FOTA
• ILDIS