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Teramnus micans

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Welwitsch ex Baker) Baker f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Ethiopia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• grassland
• marshland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jul
• Dec

Fruiting Times

Robust twiner with silky angular stems, trifoliate leaves downy above grey-hairy beneath, terminal leaflet to 150mm long. White, pink, blue or purple flowers, inflorescence a hairy raceme to 225mm long with 6mm white or orange flowers, densely silky toothed calyx to 4mm, grey-hairy fruit a pod to 55mm long

Further References

• Jstor
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• ILDIS