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Desmodium schweinfurthii Schindl.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Desmodium Desv.

Desmodium schweinfurthii Schindl. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Central African Rep. (N) [212]; Chad (N) [64]; Ethiopia (N) [24]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [8]; Sudan (N) [29]; Zaire (N) [236]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [212, 236] ; Illustration [236]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

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.

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

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.

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