Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Aeschynomene nilotica Taub..

Aeschynomene nilotica Taub.

HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Aeschynomene L.

Aeschynomene nilotica Taub. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Cameroon (N) [210]; Chad (N) [64]; Mali (N) [210]; Namibia (N) [210]; Niger (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [237]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [212];
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [212];

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

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

USES:
	Forage [78]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

64.		Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
		IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

78.		Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
		IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

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

212.		Hepper, F.N., 1958
		Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

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.