Fabaceae
Entada

Entada elephantina (Burch.) S.A.O’Donnell & G.P.Lewis

First published in PhytoKeys 205: 116 (2022)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical & S. Africa. It is a tuberous subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds Protein Content

22.20% Entire seed/nut. Moisture content not stated (Barclay & Earle, 1974)

[SID]

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

Morphology General Habit
Suffrutex producing at ground level at the woody end of a ± elongate rhizome annual herbaceous stems c. 20-60 cm. high; aerial sterns usually unbranched except for inflorescences (very rarely branched after damage to the main apex); racemes on lower part of stem only; young stems glabrous or very rarely (and not in our area) pubescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves up to 15(24) cm. long (rhachis + petiole); rhachides glabrous or with very sparse hairs; pinnae 2-4 pairs in lower leaves, increasing upwards to 7-15 pairs; leaflets (7)13-47 pairs per pinna (in ourarea the maximum is usually 30 or more), (4)5-10(15) x (0·3)0·5-2(2·5) mm., linear-oblong to linear, rarely narrowly oblanceolate, glabrous or almost so, base nearly always asymmetric, with the proximal side rounded to cuneate, apex symmetric to asymmetric, acute or rarely obtuse, mucronate, lateral nerves and veins prominent or not.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes (2)4-8(11·5) cm. long (including the peduncle), glabrous or very rarely (not in our area) pubescent; minute reddish mealy glands present round the pedicel-bases.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers described as cream or yellow.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 3·25-3·5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods (5)9·5-21 x 3-5·7 cm.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 20-25 x 13-18 x 11-13 mm., ± ellipsoid.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; grassland., Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone; shrubland, Zambezian grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
Vernacular
Elandsboontjie
[ILDIS]

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]

Uses

Use
Chemical products
[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/

  • 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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Seed Information Database

    • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. (2019) Seed Information Database (SID). Version 7.1. Available from: http://data.kew.org/sid/ (September 2019)
    • 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