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Vatovaea pseudolablab (Harms)J.B.Gillett

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Vatovaea Chiov.

Vatovaea pseudolablab (Harms)J.B.Gillett [Preferred name]
    Vatovaea biloba Chiov. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Somalia (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 210] ; Distribution Map [304] ; Illustration [24, 210]

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

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [2604, 2605]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

210.

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

304.

  Gillett, J.B., 1966
    Kew Bull.20:103-11.Notes on Legums.(Physostigma,Vatovaea).

2604.

  Morgan, W.T.W., 1981
    Economic Botany 35(1):96-130 Ethnobotany of the Turkana...

2605.

  Anon., 1985
    New Scientist No.1486:22 Early hominids dug food from ground
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