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Lonchocarpus bussei Harms

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Lonchocarpus Kunth

Lonchocarpus bussei Harms [Preferred name]
    Lonchocarpus fischeri Harms {Synonym}
    Lonchocarpus laxiflorus sensu Brenan {Misapplied}
    Lonchocarpus laxiflorus sensu Dale & Greenway, p.p. {Misapplied}
    Lonchocarpus menyhartii Schinz {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone ; woodland. [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; scrub woodland. [33];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transitional zone; wooded grassland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210] ; Illustration [210]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Medicine [121]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

33.

  White, F., 1983
    The Vegetation of Africa

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

210.

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