Fabaceae
Entada

Entada rangei (Harms) S.A.O’Donnell & G.P.Lewis

First published in PhytoKeys 205: 130 (2022)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa to Namibia. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 1-6 m. high, deciduous; bark similar to that of E. goetzei; young branchlets glabrous, or sometimes puberulous to shortly pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves up to 27 cm. long (rhachis + petiole); rhachides usually with a little pubescence on the upper side, sometimes beneath as well; pinnae (2)15-31 pairs; leaflets (19)30-50 pairs per pinna, 5-6 x 0·4-1·2 mm., linear-oblong to linear, glabrous, proximal side of the base rounded; midrib marginal throughout; apex asymmetric, varying from obtuse to acute, often mucronate; lateral nerves and veins not or scarcely visible.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence usually said to be cream-coloured but described as golden-yellow in one gathering. Racemes 4-18 cm. long (including the peduncle), often ± pubescent, sometimes glabrous; minute reddish or reddish-brown mealy glands present round the pedicel-bases.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 3-3·75 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 13-27·5 x 2-2·25 cm., linear-oblong to linear.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 14 x 11 x 5 mm. (only one measured, perhaps not mature), roughly ellipsoid.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/46861/11082391

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Indeterminate
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • 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 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

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • 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