Lianes or sometimes erect shrubs or small trees, armed with scattered deflexed or hooked prickles usually present on branchlets, and often on leaf petioles and leaf and pinna rachides and, occasionally on pod sutures
Leaves bipinnate; petiole with a conspicuous gland above base; pinnae usually with many pairs of opposite leaflets, rarely leaflets few (1-2 pairs); rachides of pinnae not modified into tendrils
Flowers bisexual, sessile or subsessile, in often paniculately aggregated spikes
Calyx cupular, shallowly 5-lobed
Petals 5, connate, sometimes very shortly so at base, rarely free
Stamens 10; anthers glandular at apex, soon deciduous
Ovary pubescent, ± stipitate, or subsessile; style-tip narrowing to a small porate stigma
Pod straight or curved, flat, splitting transversely into 1-seeded segments but leaving a persistent replum
Seeds subcircular to obovate, compound, wingless, with a central aerole variable in shape
Nomenclature:
Adenopodia C.Presl
Presl: 206 (1851)
Brenan: 77 (1986)
Entada Adans.
Adanson: 318 (1763) in part
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 10, widespread and mainly tropical
Southern Africa: Species 1: Adenopodia spicata (E.Mey.) C.Presl, from the Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal to the Eastern Cape
References:
ADANSON, M. 1763. Familles des plantes 2. Vincent, Paris
BRENAN, J.P.M. 1986. The genus Adenopodia (Leguminosae). Kew Bulletin 41
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Biodiversity Advisor, developed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and its Data Partners, is a system that will provide integrated biodiversity information to a wide range of users who will have access to geospatial data, plant and animal species data, ecosystem-level data, literature, images and metadata.
The integrated information comes from our much-loved Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA) also known as Plants of Southern Africa (POSA), Zoological Database of Southern Africa (ZODATSA), Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), SANBI's institutional repository (Opus) and others.
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