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Entada abyssinica A.Rich.

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HIGHER TAXON: Mimoseae

GENUS: Entada Adans.

Entada abyssinica A.Rich. [Preferred name]
    Entadopsis abyssinica (A.Rich.)G.C.C.Gilbert & Boutique {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [1]; Benin (N) [11]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [11]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [1]; Ghana (N) [11]; Guinea (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Kenya (N) [1]; Malawi (N) [6]; Mali (N) [11]; Mozambique (N) [1]; Nigeria (N) [11]; Rwanda (N) [7]; Sierra Leone (N) [1]; Somalia (N) [1764]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [1]; Togo (N) [11]; Uganda (N) [1]; Zaire (N) [7]; Zambia (N) [6]; Zimbabwe (N) [1]
  South America
Brazil (U) [1414]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transitional zone; wooded grassland. [11];
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; wooded grassland. [7];
    Guineo-Congolian wooded grassland. [7];
    Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands. [1];
    Zambezian woodland [6];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1] ; Illustration [1]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994/1995 Lewis GP ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL

  
USES:
  Medicine [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1959
    Mimosoideae.In:Fl.Trop.East Africa.Hubbard & Milne-Redhead

6.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1970
    Mimosoideae.In:Flora Zambeziaca Vol.3(1).Brenan,JPM et al.

7.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
    Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae.

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

1414.

  Lewis, G.P., 1987
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia

1764.

  Thulin, M., 1989
    Nordic J.Bot. 8:457-488.new/noteworthy legumes NE Trop.Afr.
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