Entada

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Entada africana Bild1198.jpg

|image_caption = Entada africana fruit

|taxon = Entada

|authority = Adans. (1763){{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4281 |title=Entada Adans. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2007-10-05 |accessdate=2009-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506213104/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4281 |archive-date=2009-05-06 |url-status=dead }}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|synonyms =

• Elephantorrhiza {{small|Benth. (1841)}}
• Entadopsis Britton (1928)
• Gigalobium P. Browne (1756)
• Perima Raf. (1838)
• Pusaetha L. ex Kuntze (1891)
• Strepsilobus Raf. (1838)

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331593-2 Entada Adans.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 August 2023.

}}

File:Entada abyssinica MHNT.BOT.2009.13.16.jpg]]

File:Entada africana MHNT.BOT.2013.22.53.jpg]]

File:Entada polyphylla MHNT.BOT.2007.27.17.jpg]]

Entada is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = Taxon | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }} It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to {{convert|1.5|m|ft}} long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches. According to Menninger the liana species of Entada can grow up to one hundred feet (thirty meters) longer in eighteen months.Edwin A. Menninger, Flowering Vines of the World (1970).