Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Tephrosia nubica (Boiss.)Baker.

Tephrosia nubica (Boiss.)Baker

HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia nubica (Boiss.)Baker [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Chad (N) [64]; Djibouti (N) [210]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Mali (N) [561]; Mauritania (N) [24]; Niger (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [210]
Middle East: Oman (N) [1939]; Saudi Arabia (N) [1939]; South Yemen (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [1939]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahel regional transition zone; bushland and thicket [33];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [24, 210] ; Illustration [455]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

33.		White, F., 1983
		The Vegetation of Africa

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

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

455.		Tackholm, V., 1956
		Students'Flora of Egypt. Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, Cairo.

561.		Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
		Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

1939.		Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
		Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.