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Desmodium hirtum Guill. & Perr.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium hirtum Guill. & Perr. [Preferred name]
    Desmodium boivinianum Baill. {Synonym}
    Desmodium humblotianum Baill. {Synonym}
    Desmodium monospermum sensu auct. {Misapplied}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Ampelatsifotra [3402]; Felantsifotra [3402]; Mandaloderekitra [3402]; Vahimpatsiko [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Gabon (N) [16]; Gambia The (N) [8]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [8]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (U) [2301]; Mali (N) [212]; Mozambique (N) [237]; Niger (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [8]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [23]; Zaire (N) [236]; Zambia (N) [237]; Zimbabwe (N) [237]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

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

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

  
USES:
  Environmental [14]; Forage [14]

  
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

23.

  Ern, H., 1984
    Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

24.

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

64.

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

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.

2301.

  Mackinder, B., 1994
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

3402.

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