Botanical name:Rhynchosia minima var. memnoniaFamily:Fabaceae (Pea family) Synonyms: Rhynchosia memnonia, Rhynchosia minima subsp. memnonia
Memnonia Snoutbean is a distinct variety of
Burn-Mouth Vine, differing mostly in
the stems and leaves being covered with minute persistent gray
velvety-hairs. Leaflets are 3, nearly as broad as long, blunt
triangular in the lower half. Flowers are few, borne in lax racemes,
yellow, shaped like pea flowers. Sepal teeth are longer than the
calyx-tube, pod is 3-4 times the calyx. Memnonia Snoutbean is found in
Tropical Asia and Africa.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed at Sathankulam, Tamil Nadu.
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