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Calpurnia aurea ssp. aurea (Aiton)Benth.

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GENUS: Calpurnia E.Mey.

Calpurnia aurea ssp. aurea (Aiton)Benth. [Preferred name]
    Calpurnia lasiogyne E.Mey. {Synonym}
    Calpurnia subdecandra (L'Her.)Schweick. {Synonym}
    Podalyria aurea (Aiton)Willd. {Synonym}
    Robinia subdecandra L'Her. {Synonym}
    Sophora aurea Aiton {Synonym}
    Virgilia aurea (Aiton)Lam. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Wild Laburnum [3676]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [210]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [2159]; Somalia (N) [2159]; South Africa (N) [2159]; Sudan (N) [29]; Swaziland (N) [233]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [2159]; Zimbabwe (N) [2159]
  Asia
India (I) [541, 3678]; Tamil Nadu [3678]; Indonesia (I) [3898]; Jawa (N) [3898]; Sri Lanka (I) [541]
  Europe

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane forest [210];
    Somalia-Masai forest [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 210, 541, 3678, 3898] ; Distribution Map [541, 3677] ; Illustration [24, 42, 210, 3677]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3898] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Shrub [3898], Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial [3898] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Environmental [1957, 3676]; Medicine [121, 3676]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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.

42.

  Dale, I.R. & Greenway, P.J., 1961
    Kenya Trees and Shrubs

121.

  Watt, J.M. & Breyer-Brandwijk, M, 1962
    Medicinal & Poisonous Plants of Southern & Eastern Africa

210.

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

233.

  Compton, L., 1966
    Flora of Swaziland.J.S.Afr.Bot.Suppl.Vol.11

541.

  Brummitt, R.K., 1967
    Kirkia 6:123-132.Calpurnia aurea, a Cape species in Trop.Afr

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.

2159.

  Wiersema, J.H. et al., 1990
    Legume Nomenclature USDA Germplasm Sys. USDA Tech. Bull.1757

3676.

  Coates-Palgrave, K., 1984
    Trees of Southern Africa. Cape Town.

3677.

  Beaumont, A.J. et al., 1999
    Bothalia 29:5-23.Revision of the genus Calpurnia...

3678.

  Britto, S.J., 1986
    J.Bombay Nat.Hist.Soc.83:468-470.Calpurnia aurea ssp. aurea

3898.

  Backer, C.A., 1963
    Flora of Java. Groningen, The Netherlands
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