Fabaceae FAMILY
Rhynchosia luteola
Rhynchosia luteola
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Rhynchosia luteola is usually a robust climbing plant with twining stems, often forming a dense tangle of growth several metres long, though sometimes it is an erect subshrub just 30 - 100cm tall. The stems are covered with long sticky yellow bristly often tubercular based hairs and also shorter pubescence and small glands[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeTropical Africa - Nigeria, Angola to eastern DR Congo and southern Kenya, south to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
HabitatEvergreen forest margins; Brachystegia, Uapaca woodland; tall grass associations; granite rocks in grassy hill country in old cultivations; riverine woodland; lake shore swamp; Pennisetum grassland; roadsides; in thick undergrowth; etc[ 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. ].