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Abrus laevigatus

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Identification
Abrus fruticulosus Wall. ex Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by Breteler, F.J., Abrus laevigatus E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Abrus laevigatus
  • Abrus precatorius
  • Abrus fruticulosus
  • Abrus pulchellus

Flora

Entry for ABRUS pulchellus Wall. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
ABRUS pulchellus Wall. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 91.
ABRUS acutifolius Blume. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
ABRUS melanosperma Hassk. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
ABRUS laevigatus E. Meyer [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Comm. 263. Harv. Fl. Cap. 263.
Information
A shrub with slender wide-climbing woody branches sometimes 20 ft. long. Stipules small, rigid, deciduous. Leaves nearly sessile; rachis 2–3 in. long; leaflets in 5–10 pairs, oblong or obovate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, both ends rounded, glabrous or finely silky. Racemes 2–3 in. long, lax, leafy below. Calyx a line long, glabrous or thinly silky, subtruncate, equalling the pedicel. Corolla pale purple, half an inch deep. Pod 2 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, linear, slightly recurved, the valves membranous, not papillose, finely silky when young. Seeds 7–9.
Range
An East Indian and Malayan species, and extending southward to Natal and Kaffraria.
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius!Upper Guinea Onitsha and Jeba, on the Quorra, Barter!

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