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Stylosanthes erecta P.Beauv.

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HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Stylosanthes Sw.

Stylosanthes erecta P.Beauv. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Salazamby [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [236]; Benin (N) [212]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [8]; Gabon (N) [16]; Ghana (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210, 3402]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Niger (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [210]; Senegal (N) [236]; Sierra Leone (N) [210]; Tanzania (U) [3402]; Zanzibar [3402]; Togo (N) [212]; Zaire (N) [236]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [210, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian mangrove (and strand forest). [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; mangrove. [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 236, 3402] ; Illustration [236, 3402]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [210]; Medicine [14]

  
NOTES:
  recognised. [3402]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

16.

  Pellegrin, F., 1949
    Les Legumineuses du Gabon.Mem.Inst.d'Etudes Centrafr.1

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.

3402.

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