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Crotalaria lathyroides Guill. & Perr.

HIGHER TAXON: Crotalarieae

GENUS: Crotalaria L.

Crotalaria lathyroides Guill. & Perr. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Benin (N) [461]; Gambia The (N) [461]; Guinea (N) [461]; Guinea Bissau (N) [461]; Ivory Coast (N) [461]; Liberia (N) [461]; Mali (N) [461]; Senegal (N) [461]; Sierra Leone (N) [461]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; grasslands. [461];
    Guineo-Congolian grasslands [461];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [224, 461] ; Distribution Map [461] ; Illustration [461]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

224.		D'Orey, J. & Liberato, Maria C., 1971
		Flora da Guinea Portuguesa: Papilionoideae

461.		Polhill, R.M., 1982
		A.A.Balkema,Rotterdam 389pp Crotalaria in Africa & Madagasca