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Vigna gracilis
Vigna gracilis
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Guillaumin & Perrottet) Hooker f.
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Benin
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé & Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Uganda
- Zaire
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Grassland
- forest
- forest edge
- streamside
- montane scrubland
- disturbed areas
- primary
- secondary & riverine forest
- gallery forest
- lakeside
- marsh edges
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial slender herbaceous twining climber with pubescent stems when young, trifoliolate leaves 75mm long, central leaflet to 40mm x 14mm grey-downy beneath when young then glabrous both surfaces, racemes with setaceous bracts & bracteoles, of 6-12 pink, white, violet or blue flowers, glabrous calyx to 3mm, pink or reddish corolla to 12mm, standard 12mm across, glabrous pod 40mm x 3mm
Further References
- Af.Vigna
- The Plant List 2
- FOTA