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Entada is a genus of in the family Fabaceae, in the Mimosoideae of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It consists of some 30 species of , and tropical . 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 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 longer in eighteen months.Edwin A. Menninger, Flowering Vines of the World (1970). According to Dr. Bruno Kremer of the University of Cologne, Entada spp. "beats all records for longitudinal growth" reaching lengths "between ".
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