Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Cadia purpurea (G.Piccioli)Aiton.

Cadia purpurea (G.Piccioli)Aiton

HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Cadia Forssk.

Cadia purpurea (G.Piccioli)Aiton [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Somalia (N) [210]
Middle East: Oman (N) [1939]; Saudi Arabia (N) [1939]; South Yemen (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [1939]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [24, 210, 540, 1859] ; Distribution Map [210] ; Illustration [24, 210, 540, 1859]

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

540.		Van der Maesen, L.J.G., 1970
		Acta Bot.Neerl.19:227-48.Primitiae Afr.8: (Cadia + 2)

1859.		Collenette, 1985
		Flowers of Saudi Arabia

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