Fabaceae
Entada

Entada dolichorrhachis Brenan

First published in Kew Bull. 20: 374 (1966)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, J.P.M. Brenan. Flora Zambesiaca 3:1. 1970

Morphology General Habit
Suffrutex with erect annual stems 1-10 cm. high and shortly tomentose or densely pubescent when young.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves with 10-20 or more pairs of pinnae and a leaf-rhachis 15-90 cm. long; tendrils absent; leaflets 6-16 pairs, 0·5-2 x 0·25-0·7 cm., ± ovate-oblong, very asymmetric, rounded and mucronate at the apex, at the base with the midrib on the distal margin and the proximal side rounded, subglabrous to ± pubescent especially on the midrib beneath.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes axillary, 1-2 together, 4-10 cm. long (including peduncle); axis densely pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1·5-2 mm. long, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla pale dull yellow; petals with their free part c. 1·25-1·75 mm. long, connate below into a corolla-tube 3·5-4 mm. long, longer than the calyx.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 3-6·5 x 1·5-1·8 cm., straight; stipe very short, less than 0·3 cm.
[FZ]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0