Tylosema
Sign in to saveThe genus Tylosema is in the plant family Fabaceae and encompasses four accepted species of perennial legumes native to southern and central Africa. These are semi-woody viniferous plants broadly distributed from Sudan and Ethiopia south to Angola and South Africa. Coetzer and Ross originally described four Tylosema species:
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Native toAngola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia
General: by Wunderlin et al. (1981), and as section Tylosema of Bauhinia
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The genus Tylosema is in the plant family Fabaceae and encompasses four accepted species of perennial legumes native to southern and central Africa. These are semi-woody viniferous plants broadly distributed from Sudan and Ethiopia south to Angola and South Africa. Coetzer and Ross originally described four Tylosema species:
==Species== There are four documented species within the genus Tylosema (Schweinf.) Torre & Hillc.: Tylosema argentea (Chiov.) Brenan Tylosema esculentum (Burch.) A.Schreib.—Marama bean Tylosema fassoglense (Kotschy ex Schweinf.) Torre & Hillc. Tylosema humifusa (Pichi-Serm. & Roti-Michel) Brenan