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Zornia capensis Pers.

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HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Zornia J.F.Gmel.

Zornia capensis Pers. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Namibia (N) [8]; South Africa (N) [210, 3402]; Swaziland (N) [8]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [237, 3402]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai anthropic landscapes [210];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian anthropic landscapes. [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 3402] ; Distribution Map [256] ; Illustration [256, 3402]

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

  
NOTES:
  Milne-Redhead, in FTEA 1971, refers to the regional variant as Z. capensis [3402]
  subsp. tropica Milne-Redh., while Mohlenbrock (Webbia 16, 1961) regards the [3402]
  variant in Tropical East Africa as a distinct species, Z. tropica. [3402]

  
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

237.

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

256.

  Mohlenbrock, R.H., 1961
    Webbia 16(1):1-141A Monograph of Leguminous Genus Zornia

3402.

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