Entada

FLORA OF MADAGASCAR
Entada
N Madagascar, Antsiranana Province, Ankarana
Massif, northern end, c. 14 km SW of Anivorano
Nord, near village of Ampasimbengy.
Map Ref.: 12°48'S 49°09’E
Remnant vegetation, in cultivated region, stream
side and damper slopes, very disturbed, on silty soil.
Also common in wooded grassland around the
Ankarana Massif.
Alt. c. 325 m
Scrambling shrub with twining tendrils, climbing to
c. 8 m tall in surrounding vegetation. Twigs and
shoots pewter grey. Leaves bipinnate with 4-6 pairs
of pinnae; leaflets yellow-green, paler beneath;
leaves deciduous and almost all fallen; leaflet
pulvinules sometimes becoming woody tendrils.
Fruit flat, the dark brown outer layer peeling back to
reveal the straw-coloured inner surface, the seed
falling in individual segments leaving a persistent
replum.
D.J. & B.P. Du Puy, P. Lowry & G. Schatz
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