Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Colutea abyssinica Kunth & Bouche.

Colutea abyssinica Kunth & Bouche

HIGHER TAXON: Galegeae

GENUS: Colutea L.

Colutea abyssinica Kunth & Bouche [Preferred name]
Colutea istria sensu auct. {Misapplied}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Ethiopia (N) [210]; Kenya (N) [210]; Rwanda (N) [210]; Somalia (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (N) [210]

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

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

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