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Desmodium salicifolium (Poir.)DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium salicifolium (Poir.)DC. [Preferred name]
    Desmodium diversifolium (Poir.)DC. {Synonym}
    Desmodium oxybracteum DC. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum diversifolium Poir. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum madagascariense var. lanceolata Desv. {Synonym}
    Hedysarum salicifolium Poir. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Ansotrirano [3402]; Famolakantsy [3402]; Kijanamborana [3402]; Odiozatra [3402]; Pindrano [3402]; Sompatsi [3402]; Tsindahoromena [3402]; Tsipipidrano [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [216]; Botswana (N) [237]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Gabon (N) [16]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Malawi (N) [210, 237]; Mali (N) [212]; Mozambique (N) [237]; Namibia (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; South Africa (N) [210, 1915]; Sudan (N) [29]; Swaziland (N) [8]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [23]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [237]
  Indian Ocean
Comoro Is (U) [3054, 4747]; Anjouan I [4747]; Madagascar (N) [1915, 3402]; Mauritius (N) [1915]; Reunion (N) [1915]

  
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, 3053, 3057, 3402] ; Illustration [24, 216, 220, 236, 3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3057] [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb [1915] [3402], Shrub [1915] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3057] ; 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:
  Environmental [236]; Food and Drink [3402]; Medicine [3402]

  
NOTES:
  Type of D.oxybracteum possibly from Mauritius;taxon not found there recently. [1915]
  Cordemoy records this species from Reunion, but it has not been found there [1915]
  since. The type is from Mauritius, but the species has not been found on the [1915]
  island recently. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

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

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

3053.

  de Cordemoy, E.J., 1895
    Flore de l'ile de la Reunion

3054.

  Voeltzkow, A., 1916
    Fl. Fauna Comoren

3057.

  Baker, J.G., 1877
    Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles

3402.

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

4747.

  Voeltzkow, A., 1917
    Flora und Fauna der Comoren. 428-480. Berlin.

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