Common names: eland's bean, eland's wattle, elephant's root (Eng.); baswortel, elandsboontjie, leerbossie, looiersboontjie, olifantswortel (Afr.); mupangara (Shona)
Family: Fabaceae
... Seeds are ellipsoid and dark brown. Of all species of Elephantorrhiza, E. elephantina is the most widespread and ... distinguished. The most frequent pollinator of all Elephantorrhiza species is the African honeybee, Apis ... sinuata, in the insect family Scarabaeidae. Flowers of Elephantorrhiza species provide only pollen as reward. Anther ...
12 / 07 / 2010 | Alicia Grobler | Pretoria NBG
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