Published in Standl. (1930). In: Publ. Field Mus. B. Ser. 3, 3 (N. 279): 435.
The native range of this species is W. Tropical Africa to Ethiopia and Tanzania. It is a climbing annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as animal food, a poison and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food.