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Tylosema fassoglensis (Schweinf.)Torre & Hillc.

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HIGHER TAXON: Cercideae

GENUS: Tylosema (Schweinf.)Torre & Hillc.

Tylosema fassoglensis (Schweinf.)Torre & Hillc. [Preferred name]
    Bauhinia fassoglensis Schweinf. {Synonym}
    Bauhinia kirkii Oliv. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [110]; Burundi (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Kenya (N) [106]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mozambique (N) [8]; South Africa (N) [106]; Sudan (N) [106]; Swaziland (N) [106]; Tanzania (N) [106]; Uganda (N) [106]; Zaire (N) [113]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands. [106];
    Sudanian wooded grassland [106];
    Zambezian wooded grassland [106];
    Zambezian woodland [106];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [106, 113] ; Illustration [24, 106, 410, 412]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing, Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
USES:
  Fibre [121]; Food and Drink [113, 121]; Forage [107]

  
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.

106.

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

107.

  Ross, J.H., 1982
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Flora Southern Africa 16,pt.1.Ross.J.H.

110.

  Torre, A.R.da & Hillcoat, D., 1958
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Consp.Fl.Angolensis 2.Exell & Mendonca

113.

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

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

410.

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

412.

  Lind, E.M. & Tallantire, A.C., 1962
    Some Common Flowering Plants of Uganda. Oxford U.P.,London.
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