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Tephrosia linearis (Willd.)Pers.

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia linearis (Willd.)Pers. [Preferred name]
    Galega linearis Willd. {Synonym}
    Tephrosia discolor E.Mey. {Synonym}
    Tephrosia linearis ssp. discolor (E.Mey.)J.B.Gillett {Synonym}
    Tephrosia linearis var. discolor (E.Mey.)Brummitt {Synonym}
    Tephrosia rutenbergiana Vatke {Synonym}
    Tephrosia seminuda Baker {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Felatsifotra [3402]; Mandombafero [3402]; Sitiky [3402]; Vetsinakoho [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Benin (N) [212]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [212]; Central African Rep. (N) [8]; Chad (N) [64]; Congo (N) [8]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Gambia The (N) [212]; Ghana (N) [210]; Guinea Bissau (N) [212, 224]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [8]; Mali (N) [212]; Mozambique (N) [8]; Niger (N) [78]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Senegal (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [29]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [8]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [8]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; anthropic landscapes. [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Sudanian anthropic landscapes [210];
    Sudanian grasslands [210];
    Zambezian anthropic landscapes. [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; anthropic habitats. [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 3402] ; Illustration [24, 173, 449]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb [3402] ; Lifespan: Annual [3402], Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [14]; Forage [14]; Medicine [3402]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

24.

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

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

64.

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

78.

  Peyre de Fabregues, B.& Lebrun, 1976
    IEMVPT Etude Botanique No.3. Catalogue des plantes..du Niger

173.

  Robyns, W., 1948
    Flore du Parc National Albert,Vol.1.

210.

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

212.

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

449.

  Gillett, J.B., 1958
    Kew Bull.13:111-13. Notes on Tephrosia in Tropical Africa.

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.
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