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Pseudarthria hookeri Wight & Arn.

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HIGHER TAXON: Desmodieae

GENUS: Pseudarthria Wight & Arn.

Pseudarthria hookeri Wight & Arn. [Preferred name]
    Pseudarthria lactescens Bojer {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Dikazolahy [3402]; Sofindambo [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Burkina (N) [212]; Burundi (N) [210]; Cameroon (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Congo (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Gabon (N) [16]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mali (N) [561]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Swaziland (N) [1753]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]; Mauritius (I) [210, 1915, 3052]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 220, 236, 3402] ; Illustration [24, 210, 220, 3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb [3402], Shrub [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [236]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

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

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.

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.

561.

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

1753.

  Schrire, B.D., 1988
    Bothalia 18:11-24...Desmodieae in southern Africa

1915.

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

3052.

  Bojer, W., 1837
    Hortus Mauritianus ou Enumeration des Plants...l'ile Maurice

3402.

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

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