Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Tephrosia densiflora Hook.f..

Tephrosia densiflora Hook.f.

HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia densiflora Hook.f. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Cameroon (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea (N) [212]; Mali (N) [212]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [212];
    Sudanian woodland [212];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [212]

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

USES:
	Toxins [121]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

64.		Lebrun, J.-P. et al, 1972
		IEMVPT Et.Bot.1,Catalogue des Plant.Vasc.du Tchad Meridional

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

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