F. strobilifera has small white bean-shaped flowers, covered by a pair of bracts, reniform, stemmed, arranged in 2 files along the raceme, like paper, corrugated like a shell, light green and finally turns thin to red when dry.
Small cylindrical pods release black and red seeds in an explosion. It grows wild in open areas and has a lot of sun or a little shade in secondary forests, road sides, slopes and abandoned land in the tropics. Widely used to treat epilepsy, hysteria and fever.
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Cajaninae
Genus: Flemingia
Species: Flemingia strobilifera
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