Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Lotononis laxa Eckl. & Zeyh..

Lotononis laxa Eckl. & Zeyh.

HIGHER TAXON: Crotalarieae

GENUS: Lotononis (DC.)Eckl. & Zeyh.

Lotononis laxa Eckl. & Zeyh. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Lesotho (N) [359]; Malawi (N) [210]; South Africa (N) [522]; Swaziland (N) [326]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane grassland [210];
    Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket. [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [24, 210, 2222] ; Illustration [24, 210]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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

326.		Kemp, E., 1983
		Swaziland Nat.Trust Comm.Oc.Pap.2.Flora Checklist Swaziland

359.		Jacot Guillarmod, A., 1971
		Flora of Lesotho.Lehre,Cramer

522.		Dummer, R.A., 1913
		Trans.Roy.Soc.S.Afr.3,2:276-330. ..the species of Lotononis.

2222.		Van Wyk, B-E., 1991
		Contrib.from the Bolus Herbarium No.14 A synop of gen Loton.