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Abrus canescens Baker

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HIGHER TAXON: Abreae

GENUS: Abrus Adans.

Abrus canescens Baker [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Burkina (N) [8]; Burundi (N) [210]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Central African Rep. (N) [210]; Gabon (N) [16]; Gambia The (N) [210]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [561]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [212]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [8, 210]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210] ; Illustration [210, 269]

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

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

16.

  Pellegrin, F., 1949
    Les Legumineuses du Gabon.Mem.Inst.d'Etudes Centrafr.1

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.

269.

  Breteler, F.J., 1960
    Blumea 10:607-624 Revision Abrus Adanson (Pap.)...Africa

561.

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