Fabaceae FAMILY

Rhynchosia hirta

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Rhynchosia hirta is a robust climbing shrub with woody stems that scramble over the ground, twining into the surrounding vegetation for support; the stems can be from 2 - 8 metres long and up to 8mm in diameter[ 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. , 372 Title Flowers of India Publication Author Website http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Nigeria to southern Ethiopia, south to southern DR Congo, Zimbabwe and northeast S. Africa

HabitatForest edges; grassland with scattered trees; hillside bushland; cultivations; dry forest; swampy and gallery forest; regrowths; fallow land; scrub; Brachystegia woodland; sometimes on termite mounds; 150-1,800 metres[ 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. ].