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Afgekia

Afgekia
Afgekia sericea 001.jpg
Afgekia sericea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
(unranked): Inverted repeat-lacking clade (incertae sedis)
Tribe: Millettieae
Genus: Afgekia
Craib
Species

Afgekia filipes
Afgekia mahidolae
Afgekia sericea
Ref: ILDIS Version 10.01


Afgekia filipes
Afgekia mahidolae
Afgekia sericea
Ref: ILDIS Version 10.01

Afgekia is a small genus of large perennial climbing shrubs native to Asia, reminiscent of the related genus Wisteria. The genus was named from the initials of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish-born plant collector who worked in then-Siam in the early twentieth century.



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