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Desmodium ramosissimum G.Don

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium ramosissimum G.Don [Preferred name]
    Desmodium mauritianum sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Hedysarum fruticulosum Desv. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum fruticulosum Schum. & Thonn. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Mandolodiaraikitsa [3402]; Petit Treff [1915]; Petite Reglisse [1915]; Silavounerivoutch [3402]; Tsilavondrivotra [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [216]; Benin (N) [212]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [212]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Gabon (N) [16]; Ghana (N) [210]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Mozambique (N) [237]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Sao Tome & Principe (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [236]; Zambia (N) [28]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [210, 1915, 3402]; Mauritius (N) [210, 1915]; Reunion (N) [1915]; Rodrigues (N) [1915]; Seychelles (I) [1941]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [210];
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 236, 1915, 1941, 3402] ; Illustration [210, 220, 1915, 3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Herb [1941] [3402], Shrub [1915] [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [14, 236, 3402]; Weed [3060]

  
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

24.

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

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

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

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

224.

  D'Orey, J. & Liberato, Maria C., 1971
    Flora da Guinea Portuguesa: Papilionoideae

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.

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1941.

  Robertson, S.A., 1989
    Flowering Plants of Seychelles. Kew

3060.

  Strahm, W., 1989
    Plant Red Data Book for Rodrigues

3402.

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