Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Aeschynomene leptophylla Harms.

Aeschynomene leptophylla Harms

HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Aeschynomene L.

Aeschynomene leptophylla Harms [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [210]; Burundi (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [8]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [237]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zambezian grassland [210];
    Zambezian woodland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [210, 236] ; Illustration [236]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

210.		Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
		Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

236.		Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
		Flore du Congo Belge, Vol 5; Galegeae, Hedysareae.

237.		Verdcourt, B., 1974
		Kirkia 9:359-556.Hedysareae in the Flora Zambesiaca area.