Moullava Explained

Moullava is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of lianas or scrambling shrubs native to tropical Africa from Cameroon to Tanzania and Angola, and to tropical Asia from India to Indochina, southern China, and western Malesia. Typical habitat includes forest margins of seasonally-dry semi-evergreen tropical forest. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

Species

Moullava comprises the following species:^[1]

• Moullava digyna (Rottler) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis—Teri pod
• Moullava spicata (Dalzell ex Wight) Nicolson
• Moullava tortuosa (Roxb.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis
• Moullava welwitschiana (Oliv.) Gagnon & G.P.Lewis

Notes and References

1. Gagnon E, Bruneau A, Hughes CE, de Queiroz LP, Lewis GP . 2016 . A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae) . PhytoKeys . 71 . 1–160 . 10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203 . 28814915 . 5558824 . free .