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Microcharis tritoides (Baker)Schrire

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HIGHER TAXON: Indigofereae

GENUS: Microcharis Benth.

Microcharis tritoides (Baker)Schrire [Preferred name]
    Indigofera tritoides Baker {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Djibouti (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [347]; Somalia (N) [347]; Sudan (N) [347]
  Middle East
Saudi Arabia (N) [347]; South Yemen (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [347]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; grassland [24];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [24];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Insufficiently known ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994-10 Schrire BD ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

347.

  Gillett, J.B., 1958
    Kew Bull.Addnl.ser.1:1-166.Indigofera..in Tropical Africa.

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.
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