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Eriosema nutans Schinz

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema nutans Schinz [Preferred name]
    Eriosema buchananii var. richardii (Baker f. & Haydon)Staner {Synonym}
    Eriosema polystachyum sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Eriosema richardii Baker f. & Haydon {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [8]; Rwanda (N) [220]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [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 [24, 210, 317, 322] ; Illustration [24, 220, 317, 322]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; 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

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

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

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

317.

  Stirton, C.H., 1981
    Bothalia 13:281-306. The Eriosema cordatum complex.II

322.

  Stirton, C.H., 1984
    Flowering Plants of Africa 48:1900. Eriosema nutans.
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