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Lotus goetzei Harms

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HIGHER TAXON: Loteae

GENUS: Lotus L.

Lotus goetzei Harms [Preferred name]
    Lotus oehleri Harms {Synonym}
    Lotus oxyphyllus Harms {Doubtful synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [546]; Kenya (N) [546]; Malawi (N) [546]; Tanzania (N) [546]; Uganda (N) [546]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210] ; Illustration [210]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2001-03 Sokoloff DD ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 Sokoloff DD & Kramina TE ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
NOTES:
  Type of L.oxyphyllus destroyed; very poorly known. [210]
  L.oxyphyllus could also be a synonym of L.namulensis. [210]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

210.

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

546.

  Gillett, J.B., 1958
    Kew Bull.13:361-81. [Lotus in Africa].
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