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Eriosema shirense Baker f.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema shirense Baker f. [Preferred name]
    Eriosema filipendulum Baker f. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [313]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Ivory Coast (N) [212]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Rwanda (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [8]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane grassland [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; woodland. [210];
    Montane woodland [210];
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Sudanian woodland [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];
    Zambezian woodland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 210, 230] ; Illustration [220, 314]

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

  
NOTES:
  Torre (CFA, ref.216) distinguishes two varieties of his E.shirense. []

  
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

212.

  Hepper, F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

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

314.

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

3237.

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