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Teramnus uncinatus ssp. ringoetii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(de Wildeman) Verdcourt

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• N. Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest clearings
• savanna
• disturbed areas
• damp places.

Flowering Times

• Mar
• Oct
• Nov

Fruiting Times

Slender annual twiner with brown pilose stems. Trifoliate coriaceous leaves glabrescent above, grey-hairy beneath, terminal leaflet to 75mm x 20mm. White to pale red or maroon flowers, pale reddish corolla to 5mm long, brown-velvety toothed calyx to 4mm long, with densely brown-velvety stems, in flowering axillary racemes to 500mm long, fruit green with brown pubescence

Further References

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