Extracts of the plant are used in the dyeing of silk and cotton in parts of India, Africa, and the Middle East.

An erect herb or subshrub, Flemingia grahamiana can grow up to 1.8 m tall[1] but commonly shorter,[2] it is much branched, deeply rooted and sometimes tuberous.

[2] Inflorescence is an axillary raceme, corolla is yellowish white to pink in color, calyx is tubular and up to 1.5 cm long.

[1] Fruit is an inflated oblong pod, 2 seeded and covered with a red or orange viscous exude.

Found on hill slopes,[2] termite mounds and in open and wooded savannah in Africa.