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Spathionema

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Spathionema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Spathionema
Taub. (1895)
Species:
S. kilimandscharicum
Binomial name
Spathionema kilimandscharicum
Taub. (1895)
Synonyms[1]

Vigna macrantha Harms (1901)

Spathionema kilimandscharicum is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a climbing or scrambling subshrub, 2 to 10 meters long, native to Kenya and Tanzania. It is the sole species in genus Spathionema.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.

It grows in mixed deciduous bushland with Acacia spp., Terminalia orbicularis, Commiphora spp., Sesamothamnus spp. and others, and in Acacia semi-desert grassland, from 350 to 1470 meters elevation.[1]

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