Entada stuhlmannii (Taub.) Harms

Slender woody climber, unarmed, said to have a tuberous root.. Young branchlets glabrous, often flexuous.. Leaves with 2(–3) pairs of pinnae; one or more of the pinnae, usually terminal, sometimes modified to a tendril, or spirally twisted at base and bearing leaflets above; leaves of scrambling shoots may have the terminal pair of pinnae leafless and tendril-like, and the lower pair much reduced; leaflets 4–5(–8) pairs, obovate-or oblanceolate-oblong, or sometimes narrowly oblong, 1–2.7 cm. long, 5–14 mm. wide, rounded to subtruncate and mucronate or not at apex, asymmetric at base, glabrous, lateral nerves and venation distinctly raised and easily visible at least beneath and often on both surfaces.. Stipules minute, inconspicuous, not divergent nor spinescent.. Racemes axillary, solitary, often aggregated, 3.5–6 cm. long (not including the usually 1–2 cm. long peduncle), glabrous; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long.. Flowers purple or brownish-red.. Calyx glabrous, 1 mm. long.. Petals 2.5 mm. long.. Stamen-filaments about 3 mm. long.. Pods about 12–20 cm. long (to 30 cm. long, fide Taubert), 2.7–4.3 cm. wide, subcoriaceous, falcately curved, with a stipe 1.5–2.5 cm. long.. Mature seeds not seen, probably similar to those of E. wahlbergii.