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Vigna racemosa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(G.Don) Hutchinson & Dalziel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé & Príncipe
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Edge of dry forest
• wooded savanna
• disturbed areas
• gallery forest
• grassland
• marshy savanna
• streamside

Flowering Times

• May
• Oct
• Nov Sep-Dec
• Feb-Jul (C. Africa)

Fruiting Times

Perennial herbaceous twining climber with axillary racemes of lavender-blue & white flowers, or purple, calyx to 6mm, corolla to 10mm, pinnately trifoliate leaves, terminal leaflet to 50mm long, pilose young stems & leaflets, curved glabrpous legume 32mm x 3mm

Further References

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