Eriosema

Eriosema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Accepted species number over 150. The genus is widespread in tropics.

Description
Species of Eriosema are mostly herbs or shrublets. Leaves are pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely reduced to a single leaflet. Inflorescences are 1–2-flowered or pedunculate racemes in the leaf axils, yellow to orange, calyx is campanulate, consists of five similar lobes. Pods are short and flattened with two seeds.

Selected species

 * Eriosema campestre Benth. — Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
 * Eriosema chinense Vogel — South-East Asia, East Himalaya, India, New Guinea, Australia
 * Eriosema defoliatum Benth. — Brazil
 * Eriosema glabrum Mart. ex Benth. — Argentina, Brazil
 * Eriosema glaziovii Harms — Brazil
 * Eriosema harmsianum Dinter — Namibia
 * Eriosema kraussianum Meisn. — South Africa
 * Eriosema longifolium Benth. — Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay
 * Eriosema salignum E.Mey. — South Africa
 * Eriosema stenophyllum Harms — Brazil

Uses
Root tubers of Eriosema species have been traditional food for Aborigines of the Northern Territory.