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Eriosema glomeratum (Guill. & Perr.)Hook.f.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema glomeratum (Guill. & Perr.)Hook.f. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Benin (N) [3237]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Mali (N) [561]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [8]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 230] ; Illustration [314]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2001-03 van der Maesen LJG ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 van der Maesen, LJG ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [230]; Toxins [52]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

52.

  Verdcourt, B. & Trump, E.C., 1969
    Common Poisonous Plants of East Africa

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.

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae

314.

  Staner, P. & de Craene, A., 1934
    Ann.Mus.Congo Belge,Bot.,ser.VI,1:37-92. Eriosema Congo Belg

561.

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

3237.

  van der Maesen, L.J.G., 2001
    Personal Communication.
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