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Astragalus atropilosulus (Hochst.)Bunge

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HIGHER TAXON: Galegeae

GENUS: Astragalus L.

Astragalus atropilosulus (Hochst.)Bunge [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Burundi (N) [210]; Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Malawi (N) [210]; Rwanda (N) [220]; Somalia (N) [210]; South Africa (N) [210]; Sudan (N) [558]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]
  Middle East
Yemen (N) [558]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane grassland [210];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [210];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 210, 220] ; Illustration [24, 210, 220]

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

  
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

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

558.

  Gillett, J.B., 1964
    Kew Bull.17:413-23.Astragalus in the highlands of trop.Afr.
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