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Erythrina abyssinica DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Erythrina L.

Erythrina abyssinica DC. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Burundi (N) [285]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]
  Indian Ocean
Mauritius (I) [1915]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 284] ; Illustration [9, 29, 220, 284, 3069]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub, Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
NOTES:
  Native to Tropical Africa. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

9.

  Eggeling, W.J. & Dale, I.R., 1952
    The Indigenous Trees of the Uganda Protectorate.

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

284.

  Hennessy, E.F., 1977
    Flowering Plants of Africa 44:1738.Erythrina abyssinica.

285.

  Krukoff, B.A. & Barneby, R.C., 1974
    Lloydia 37(3):332-459 Conspectus...of the genus Erythrina

1915.

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

3069.

  Hargreaves, D. & Hargreaves, B., 1972
    African trees:Tropical Africa,South Africa,Madagascar ...
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