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Lonchocarpus eriocalyx Harms

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Lonchocarpus Kunth

Lonchocarpus eriocalyx Harms [Preferred name]
    Lonchocarpus barlassinae Chiov. {Synonym}
    Lonchocarpus bussei sensu Dale & Greenway {Misapplied}
    Lonchocarpus scheffleri Baker f. {Synonym}

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

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian wooded grassland [210];
    Zambezian woodland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 230] ; Illustration [210]

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

  
USES:
  Medicine [121]

  
NOTES:
  Variation discussed in FTEA, ref.210, p.71. []

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae
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