Swaziland's Flora Database:
Species Information
Erythrina lysistemon Hutch.
(name current 2016)
Sacred Coral Tree
siPhama
umDvumbula
umdvumbulu
umsinsi
Fabaceae
Growth form: Tree
Found within protected areas
Swaziland distribution: widespread
Local abundance: occasional
Schedule B
Medicinal
Other uses
Permits issued
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Erythrina lysistemon - (Umsinsi) Medium-sized deciduous tree with somewhat corky bark, almost hairless, with few sharp prickles on young stems. Leaf stalk slender, up to 8 cm long; terminal leaflet with stalk c 4 cm long, larger than laterals, roundish but tapering gradually to blunt point, c 8 cm long x 6 cm wide. Inflorescences with stout stalk up to 10 cm long x 4 mm diam, and close raceme of downward-pointing flowers; calyx slightly hairy, c 1 cm long, shortly lobed; corolla curved outwards, c 5 cm long, scarlet, standard clasping other petals. Fruits leathery, up to 15 cm long, with c ten one-seeded chambers separated by constrictions, each containing one oval hard-coated red seed.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
Included in Tree Atlas.
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References
Culverwell, J., K.P. Braun (in prep). Mlawula Nature Reserve Annotated Flora Checklist (incomplete, unpublished)