Entada

Taxobox
name = "Entada"

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image_caption = "Entada africana" fruit
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamily = Mimosoideae
genus = "Entada"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

The genus "Entada" consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and lianas of the subfamily "Mimosoideae" of "Fabaceae".

About 21 species are known from Africa, 6 from Asia, 2 from Tropical America and one with a cosmopolitan distribution.

Principal species

* "Entada abyssinica" Steudel ex A. Rich.
* "Entada africana"
* "Entada chrysostachys" (Benth.) Drake
* "Entada gigas" (L.) Fawcett et Rendle - cœur de la mer
* "Entada phaseoloides" (L.) Merr.
* "Entada polystachya" (L.) DC.
* "Entada rheedii" Spreng.

External links

* [http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=12 Madagascar Catalogue]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/ Taxonomy]
* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4281 GRIN]