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Smithia elliotii Baker f.

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HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Smithia Aiton

Smithia elliotii Baker f. [Preferred name]
    Smithia erubescens sensu Dewit & P.A.Duvign. {Synonym}
    Smithia rosea R.Vig. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Fanivanjetra [3402]; Fanivonjetry [3402]; Fanombo [3402]; Manjakabe [3402]; Tsingilongilondrano [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [210]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [210]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (U) [210, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Sudanian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian freshwater swamp and aquatic vegetation [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 3402] ; Illustration [210, 220, 3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb [3402] ; Lifespan: Annual, Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

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

210.

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

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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