This finding is supported by the fact that even in English, two of them, M. pigra and C. decapetala (Roth) Alston [Leguminosae], are referred to as ‘catclaws’, a name given after their ‘prickles’ that resemble the claws of a cat. In Burundi, Rwanda’s neighboring country; both species have a similar denomination ‘u-mu-bamb-a-n-gu-e’. Baerts and Lehmann (1989) translated this name into French ‘l’épineux qui cloue le léopard au sol’, which in English would be referred to as ‘the spiny plant that nails the leopard to the ground’.