Moullava
Sign in to saveMoullava is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of lianas or scrambling shrubs native to tropical Africa from Cameroon to Tanzania and Angola, and to tropical Asia from India to Indochina, southern China, and western Malesia. Typical habitat includes forest margins of semi-evergreen seasonal tropical forest. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
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Moullava is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of lianas or scrambling shrubs native to tropical Africa from Cameroon to Tanzania and Angola, and to tropical Asia from India to Indochina, southern China, and western Malesia. Typical habitat includes forest margins of semi-evergreen seasonal tropical forest. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
==Species== Moullava comprises the following species: Moullava digyna (Rottler) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis—Teri pod Moullava spicata (Dalzell ex Wight) Nicolson Moullava tortuosa (Roxb.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis Moullava welwitschiana (Oliv.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis