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Pterolobium stellatum (Forssk.)Brenan

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Pterolobium Wight & Arn.

Pterolobium stellatum (Forssk.)Brenan [Preferred name]
    Pterolobium exosum (J.F.Gmel.)Baker f. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [106]; Kenya (N) [106]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mozambique (N) [8]; Rwanda (N) [113]; South Africa (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Middle East
Yemen (N) [106]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane forest [33];
    Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket. [33];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [106];
    Somalia-Masai forest [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 113] ; Illustration [24, 106, 410]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994/1995 Lewis GP ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

106.

  Brenan, J.P.M., 1967
    Caesalp.In:Flora Trop.East Africa. Milne-Redhead & Polhill

113.

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

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.
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