WorldFloraDB - Entada nudiflora

Characteristics

Leaves with 2-3 pairs of pinnae; one or more of the pinnae, usually terminal, sometimes modified to a tendril; leaflets 18-25 pairs, 6-13·5 x 1-1·75 mm., linear to linear-oblong, rounded to subacute and mucronate at the apex, asymmetric at the base, glabrous or almost so, lateral nerves not visible beneath.

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Racemes axillary, solitary, always produced when the plant is leafless, often aggregated on short shoots or occupying terminal parts of shoots, 2·5 cm. long (not including the 10-30 mm. long peduncle), glabrous, dense-flowered.

Pods c. 25-28 x 3-3·4 cm., flat, subcoriaceous, falcately curved, with a stipe c. 1·5-2 cm. long.

Slender woody climber to 3 m. high, unarmed; young branchlets glabrous.

Flowers dark-purple, sessile or almost so (pedicel to 0·5 mm. long).

Stamen-filaments 6-8 mm. long.

Calyx c. 2·5 mm. long.

Seeds c. 10 x 6·5 mm.

Petals 3·5 mm. long.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	climber
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	3.0
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Nitrogen fixer	rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493859-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000212726
COL ID	39X5G
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
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Synonyms

Entada nudiflora

WorldFloraDB 2024

Entada nudiflora Brenan

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Entada