Dalbergia obovata (climbing flat bean) is a robust shrub or climber in the family Fabaceae, and is native to Southern Africa. [2] This species favours coastal and riverine forest [3] and forest margins as well as wooded slopes, and deciduous woodland. [2] . It is found from the Eastern Cape, through KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique to Tanzania. [2]

Dalbergia obovata is an unusual robust shrub or climber with attractively dense clusters of sweet-smelling flowers followed by pretty yellow-green pods.

It is a climbing shrub or tree and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome. Amerimnon obovatum (E.Mey.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 159 (1891) Dalbergia sessiliflora Harms in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 296 (1899) Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it. Brummitt, R.K. & al. (2007).

Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade (or tribe): the Dalbergieae.

Dalbergia obovata (climbing flat bean) is a robust shrub or climber in the Fabaceae family, and is native to Southern Africa. Most organisms interact with other organisms in some way or …

Shrub or small tree to 5 m or a liane to 30 m, without spines. Leaves with 3-4 leaflets on each side of the rhachis; leaflets 1.5 - 4.5 cm long, obovate to elliptic, glabrous above, sparsely hairy beneath; margin undulate. Inflorescence of axillary and terminal panicles. Flowers white, 6-7 mm long. Calyx 5-lobed, appressed-puberulous.

Dalbergia obovata. Botanical Name . Dalbergia obovata E. Meyer . Common Name(s) climbing flat-bean ; rankplatboontjie (Afrikaans) Synonyms . See full synonymy at the Legume Data Portal. Legume Clades . Papilionoideae, 50-kb Inversion Clade, Dalbergioids s.l., Dalbergieae, Dalbergia Clade, Dalbergia. IUCN Status ...

Common petiole 2–3 inches long, at first densely pubescent, afterwards subglabrous, bearing 5 or 7 alternate leaflets, each about 1 1/2 inch long, 3/4 inch wide, netted on each side and glossy. Panicles terminal and axillary, much branched, the branches fasciculato-corymbose. Flowers not 2 …

This name is reported by Fabaceae as an accepted name in the genus Dalbergia (family Fabaceae). The record derives from ILDIS (data supplied on 2024-06-04) which reports it as an accepted name (record 1810 )

Dalbergia obovata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06. For more multimedia, look at …