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Zornia glochidiata DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Aeschynomeneae

GENUS: Zornia J.F.Gmel.

Zornia glochidiata DC. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Kitra [3402]; Maitsorovy [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [216]; Benin (N) [212]; Botswana (N) [237]; Burkina (N) [8]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Cape Verde (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [237]; Mali (N) [8]; Mozambique (N) [237]; Namibia (N) [212]; Niger (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Socotra (N) [90]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [236]; Zambia (N) [237]; Zimbabwe (N) [237]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [210, 3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; grassland [210];
    Somalia-Masai anthropic landscapes [210];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [210];
    Sudanian anthropic landscapes [210];
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian anthropic landscapes. [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 236, 237, 3402] ; Distribution Map [256] ; Illustration [256, 3402]

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

  
USES:
  Forage [14, 78]; Medicine [14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

14.

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

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

90.

  Balfour, I.B., 1887
    Trans.Roy.Soc.Edinb.31:1-446.Botany of Socotra

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.

216.

  Torre, A.R. et al., 1966
    Papilionoideae.In:Consp.Fl.Angolensis 3.Exell & Fernandez

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

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.

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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