Vigna adenantha (G.Mey.) Marechal, Mascherpa & Stainier

Scientific Description

Twining or climbing plants. Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 160-230 mm long, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present but early deciduous ( only visible on youngest leaves ), 4.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3.5-4 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present but early deciduous. Calyx 5.5-6.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla uniformly coloured, mauve. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 65-90 mm long, 10-11 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in October. Occurs in the Northern Botanical Province, in the Victoria Bonaparte IBRA regions.