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Desmodium ospriostreblum Chiov.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium ospriostreblum Chiov. [Preferred name]
    Anarthrosyne abyssinica A.Rich. {Synonym}
    Desmodium spirale sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Desmodium tortuosum sensu Hepper, p.p. {Misapplied}
    Meibomia abyssinica (A.Rich.)Schindl. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [8]; Cape Verde (N) [210]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [210]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Ghana (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mali (N) [561]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [210]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]
  Asia
India (I) [3661]; Jammu-Kashmir [3661]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (I) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian bushland and thicket [210];
    Sudanian woodland [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian woodland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 3402, 3819] ; Illustration [24, 3402, 3819]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Herb [3402] ; Lifespan: Annual [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
NOTES:
  Scarcely differs from D.procumbens(Miller)Hitchc. (Verdcourt 1974 ref.237). []

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

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

29.

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

78.

  Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
    IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

210.

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

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

3402.

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

3661.

  Samaddar, U.P. & Roy, B., 1997
    Additional elements in Indian flora, Vol.1. Calcutta.

3819.

  Sharma, B.M., 1990
    Indian J.For.13:260-262.Desmodium ospriostreblum-new additio
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