Fabaceae FAMILY

Indigofera rhynchocarpa

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Indigofera rhynchocarpa is a shrub with straight, branched stem; it usually grows 50 - 200cm tall, though sometimes flowers on short coppice shoots[ 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 is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Ghana, through southern Chad to Uganda and northern Tanzania, south to Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique

HabitatBrachystegia, Julbernardia or Uapaca woodland often with tall grass annually burned; wooded grassland; bushy wooded places; thickets with tall herbage; savannahs; margins of seasonally wet or riparian woodland[ 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. ].