3468.000 Entada Adans.

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs, suffrutices or lianes, mostly unarmed (in ours) or armed (in the Mozambican E. schlechteri). Leaves 2-pinnate. Inflorescences of spikes, axillary or supra-axillary, solitary or clustered. Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Calyx gamosepalous, with 5 teeth. Petals 5, free. Stamens 10. Pod with valves splitting transversely into 1-seeded segments, the segments leaving a persistent empty frame.

Worldwide: c. 30 species in tropical America, Africa and Australia

Zambia: 9 taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:

Erebus walkeri (Walker's owl) Food plant

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
abyssinica Steud. ex A. Rich.	B,N,W,C,S	Description, Image
arenaria Schinz subsp. arenaria [LR-nt]	B,W,S	Description, Image
arenaria Schinz subsp. microcarpa (Brenan) J.Ross [NrEnd][LR-nt]	B,W	Description, Image
bacillaris F.White var. plurijuga Brenan [DD]	N
bacillaris F. White var. bacillaris
chrysostachys (Benth.) Drake[LR-nt]	N,E,S	Description, Image
dolichorrhachis Brenan [End][VU]	N	Description, Image
gigas (L.) Fawc. & Rendle	N,W
nudiflora Brenan	N

Other sources of information about Entada:

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Flora of Botswana: Entada
Flora of Burundi: Entada
Flora of Caprivi: Entada
Flora of the DRC: Entada
Flora of Malawi: Entada
Flora of Mozambique: Entada
Flora of Zimbabwe: Entada

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Entada
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Entada
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Entada
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Entada
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Entada
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Entada
JSTOR Plant Science: Entada
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Entada
Plants of the World Online: Entada
Tropicos: Entada
Wikipedia: Entada