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Eriosema parviflorum E.Mey.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema parviflorum E.Mey. [Preferred name]
    Cytisus glomeratus Bojer {Synonym}
    Eriosema bojeriana Baill. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Ambatriparihy [3402]; Avoko [3402]; Avokonibiby [3402]; Karintsana [3402]; Kifoka [3402]; Tialamba [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [313]; Congo (N) [313]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [271]; Gabon (N) [271]; Ghana (N) [271]; Ivory Coast (N) [313]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [271]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [271]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Sierra Leone (N) [271]; South Africa (N) [210, 317]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [1915, 3402]; Mauritius (I) [1915, 3052]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [210];
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; grasslands. [210];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; bushland and thicket [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 317, 3402] ; Illustration [317]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb [3402], Shrub [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 van der Maesen, LJG ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
NOTES:
  Presence on Mauritius not confirmed by Polhill (1990). [1915]
  Native to Tropical and Subtropical Africa, and Madagascar. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

210.

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

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

271.

  Verdcourt, B., 1971
    Kew Bull.25:65-169. Studies in FTEA Leg.-Papilionoideae:V.

313.

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

317.

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

1915.

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

3052.

  Bojer, W., 1837
    Hortus Mauritianus ou Enumeration des Plants...l'ile Maurice

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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