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Lonchocarpus capassa Rolfe

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Lonchocarpus Kunth

Lonchocarpus capassa Rolfe [Preferred name]
    Capassa violacea Klotzsch {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Botswana (N) [8]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Namibia (N) [210]; South Africa (N) [210]; Swaziland (N) [326]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [28]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Zambezian scrub woodland [33];
    Zambezian woodland [33];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210] ; Illustration [22, 28, 226, 410]

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

  
USES:
  Medicine [121]; Toxins [121]; Wood [121]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

22.

  Drummond & Coates Palgrave, 1973
    Common Trees of the Highveld

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

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

226.

  Palmer, E. & Pitman, N., 1977
    Trees of Southern Africa,Vol.2

326.

  Kemp, E., 1983
    Swaziland Nat.Trust Comm.Oc.Pap.2.Flora Checklist Swaziland

410.

  Onderstall, J., 1984
    Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment... South Afr.Wild Fl.Guide 4.
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