Common in homesteads and farming areas A multipurpose tree used as live fence, fodder, shade, support, firewood, green manure and bio-pesticide. In traditional medicine, the bark is used against eczema and other skin diseases.
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A multipurpose tree used as live fence, fodder, shade, support, firewood, green manure and bio-pesticide. In traditional medicine, the bark is used against eczema and other skin diseases.
family
Fabaceae
synonym
Robinia sepium Jacq., Gliricidia lambii Fernald
description
Small trees, bark grey. Leaves odd-pinnate, alternate, spiral; rachis 8-30 × cm; leaflets 7-21, opposite, 3-8 2-5 cm, ovate-oblong or elliptic-ovate, base obtuse or oblique, apex acuminate or obtuse, glaucous and puberulent beneath; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs. Flowers 2 cm across, rose- pink, in up to 20 cm long racemes; pedicels to 2 cm. Calyx campanulate, to 5 mm; lobes × obscure. Petals exserted; standard 2 1.5 cm, orbicular, with 2 callosities above claw; × wings to 2 0.6 cm, oblong, auricled; keels × 2.2 0.8 cm, obovate, incurved. Stamens 9+1; staminal tube 1.6 cm; vexillary stamen free; filaments unequal. Fruit a pod, to 15 cm long.