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3468.000 Entada
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 Mozambique: 6 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica Steud. ex A. Rich. | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| chrysostachys (Benth.) Drake | N,MS | Description, Image |
| mossambicensis Torre[End] | N | |
| rheedei Spreng. | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |
| stuhlmannii (Taub.) Harms[NrEnd] | N | |
| wahlbergii Harv. | GI,M | Description |
Other sources of information about Entada:
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Flora of Botswana: EntadaFlora of Burundi: Entada
Flora of Caprivi: Entada
Flora of the DRC: Entada
Flora of Malawi: Entada
Flora of Zambia: Entada
Flora of Zimbabwe: Entada
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): EntadaBHL (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
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