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Fabaceae FAMILY

Entada chrysostachys

Entada chrysostachys

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Entada chrysostachys can be a shrub or a small tree growing up to 12 metres tall, or can adopt a more or less climbing habit[ 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. , 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 bole, which is often twisted, is up to 20cm 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. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeEastern tropical Africa - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar.
HabitatProbably characteristic of rocky beds of streams and rivers and lake-margins, at elevations from 40 - 460 metres in eastern Africa[ 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. ]. Dry woodland and along rivers[ 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. ].