Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Eriosema griseum Baker.

Eriosema griseum Baker

HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema griseum Baker [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Angola (N) [210]; Benin (N) [313]; Burkina (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [210]; Guinea (N) [210]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Mali (N) [561]; Nigeria (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Sudanian wooded grassland [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [210, 230]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 van der Maesen, LJG [3237] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

USES:
	Medicine [230]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

313.		Jacques-Felix, H., 1971
		Adansonia ser.2,11:141-99.Obs.sur quelqs.esp.Eriosema

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.