Flemingia grahamiana

Botanical Description

Flemingia grahamiana is a much-branched, erect, or occasionally subscandent, perennial herbaceous plant or sometimes a scarcely woody subshrub; it can grow from 30 - 180cm tall. The stems are at first silky greyish or fulvous hairy, later becoming glabrescent[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The plant has deep growing, sometimes tuberous roots[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ]. The fruit of this species is one of the principal sources of a very popular Arab dye called 'waras', 'wars' or 'warus'. Waras is a coarse purple or brilliant orange-brown powder. The plant has been cultivated as a dye and medicinal plant since ancient times in the Yemen. Formerly it was also cultivated in Ethiopia and the dye was exported to Yemen[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].