Fabaceae FAMILY

Rhynchosia viscosa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Rhynchosia viscosa is a perennial plant with straggling twining stems that become more or less woody at their base; the stems can be 150 - 250cm long[ 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. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Guinea-Bissau to Ethiopia and Somalia, south to Angola, southern DR Congo, Mozambique and Madagascar

HabitatForest edges; bushland; grassland; cultivated land; wooded thickets; marshy places; clearings; riverine vegetation (bushy margins of palm-groves along river banks); sometimes coastal; savannahs; at elevations up to 1,200 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. ].