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Fabaceae - Mimosoideae - Mimoseae - Entada Adans.

Description:

  • Unarmed suffrutices or lianes
  • Leaves bipinnate, uppermost pair of pinnae often modified into tendrils; pinnae in 1-4 pairs, each with one to many pairs of leaflets; petioles eglandular
  • Flowers bisexual, in slender spikes, sessile or shortly pedicellate
  • Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed or nearly truncate
  • Petals 5, valvate, free, or slightly cohering, or fused to form a campanulate tube
  • Stamens 10, exserted, free or united at base; anthers tipped with deciduous apical gland
  • Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled, glabrous; style terete; stigma terminal, small, hollow
  • Pods often very large (E. rheedii), straight or curved, compressed, coriaceous or woody, breaking up into 1-seeded, indehiscent portions
  • Seeds deep brown, smooth, ± compressed, orbicular in outline
  • x = 14 (can also be 7)

Nomenclature:

  • Entada Adans.
    • Adanson: 318 (1763) name conserved
    • Harvey: 276 (1862)
    • Brenan: 9 (1959)
    • Brenan: 13 (1970)
    • Ross: 150 (1975)
  • Entadopsis Britton
    • Britton: 191 (1928)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 20, fairly widespread in tropical parts
  • Southern Africa: Species 3, Namibia and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • ADANSON, M. 1763. Familles des plantes 2. Vincent, Paris
  • BRENAN, J.P.M. 1959. Flora of tropical East Africa. Leguminosae (part 1). Mimosoideae
  • BRENAN, J.P.M. 1970. Leguminosae. Flora zambesiaca 3,1
  • BRITTON, N.L. 1928. North American flora 23. New York Botanical Garden
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Leguminosae. Flora capensis 2
  • ROSS, J.H. 1975. Fabaceae. Mimosoideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,1

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