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Vigna comosa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Baker

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Cameroon
• Congo
• Gabon
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé & Príncipe
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• South Africa
• Guinea
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• woodland
• savanna
• primary & secondary woodland
• disturbed areas
• lakesides
• seasonally inundated areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Jun

Fruiting Times

Perennial herbaceous twining climbing or prostrate trailing herb withgrey-hairy stems, trifoliate leaves downy both surfaces, terminal leaflet to 36mm long, racemes of yellow or mauve-yellow flowers with setaceous bracts, calyx to 2mm, corolla to 10mm, standard glabrous on back

Further References

• Mobot
• Af.Vigna
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• ILDIS