Pongamia pinnata(L.) Pierre [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
Pongamia pinnata
Flora
Entry for Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
Pongamia pinnata(L.) Pierre [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
It is in every respect like a Derris (see p. 73) except for the distinctive fruit, which is somewhat flattened but very thick-walled, obliquely oblong-elliptic in outline.
Notes
, from tropical Asia, is recorded as a shade tree in Uganda at Entebbe (Maitland 101 !) and in Tanganyika at Tanga (Willan 627 !).
