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Vigna heterophylla

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

A. Richard

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Riverside vegetation
• woodland
• edge of floodplain
• dry forest
• riparian forest
• treed savanna
• disturbed areas
• forest edge
• swamps

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Oct Sep-Dec (N&W Africa)

Fruiting Times

Annual or perennial climbing or trailing twining herb, stems with ferrugineous hair or grey pubescence, trifoliate leaves central one mucronate to 125mm long, scabrous both sides with hairs, axillary racemes with setaceous bracteoles, to 12 flowers, red or yellowish, pinkish or purple corolla to 16mm, hairy calyx to 6mm, standard silky outside

Further References

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