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*''Erythrina tomentosa'' R.Br. ex A.Rich. (1847).

*Red-hot-poker tree, lucky bean tree, flame tree, Abyssinian coral tree (En). *Arbre de corail d’Abyssinie (Fr). *Mjafari, mlungu, mbamba ngoma, mwamba ngoma (Sw).

*Deciduous, small tree up to 12(–15) m tall; bole usually short, stout, up to 60 cm in diameter, usually armed with woody knobs; bark thick, corky, deeply fissured, yellowish brown, exuding a brown, gummy sap; crown rounded, with thick, spreading, somewhat twisted branches; twigs armed with strong curved prickles, initially densely hairy, glabrescent. *Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; stipules lanceolate, caducous; petiole 6–20 cm long, often prickly, rachis 3–8 cm long, petiolules 0.5–1 cm long; leaflets broadly ovate to rhombic or almost circular, 2.5–20 cm × 2.5–21 cm, cordate to rounded or truncate at base, obtuse to notched at apex, densely hairy especially below, 3-veined from the base, veins sometimes with prickles. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal, pyramidal, dense, erect false raceme up to 20 cm long; peduncle 2–20 cm long; bracts up to 9 mm long, soon caducous. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous; pedicel 2–6 mm long; calyx cylindrical to spindle-shaped, split at one side, tube 0.5–2 cm long, densely hairy, lobes elliptical to linear, 0.5–6 cm long; corolla orange-red to scarlet red, standard elliptical to obovate, 3–5 cm × 1–1.5 cm, wings 7–11 mm × 4–6 mm, keel petals free, 5–6 mm × 3–4 mm; stamens 10, fused but 1 almost free; ovary superior, narrowly cylindrical-oblong, stiped, 1-celled, style long, incurved. *Fruit a linear-oblong pod 4–16 cm × 1–2.5 cm, markedly constricted between the seeds, brown to black, usually hairy, opening by 2 valves, 1–10-seeded. *Seeds ellipsoid, 6–12 mm long, bright red with area around the hilum black.

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* R. Aerts , Division Forest, Nature and Landscape, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, Box 2411, BE-3001, Leuven, Belgium

Aerts, R., 2008. '''Erythrina abyssinica''' Lam. ex DC. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.