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Trifolium usambarense Taub.

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HIGHER TAXON: Trifolieae

GENUS: Trifolium L.

Trifolium usambarense Taub. [Preferred name]
    Trifolium pseudocryptopodium Fiori {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (N) [566]; Equatorial Guinea (N) [566]; Ethiopia (N) [566]; Kenya (N) [566]; Malawi (N) [566]; Mozambique (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [566]; Rwanda (N) [566]; South Africa (I) [8]; Tanzania (N) [566]; Uganda (N) [566]; Zaire (N) [566]; Zambia (N) [566]; Zimbabwe (I) [8]

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

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 467, 566] ; Illustration [220, 566, 567]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D, 2005-06 Roskov YR ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Forage [567]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

210.

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

220.

  Troupin, G., 1984
    Flore du Rwanda

467.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1953
    Flore Du Congo Belge 4. Genisteae,Sophoreae.

566.

  Zohary, M. & Heller, D., 1984
    The Genus Trifolium. Jerusalem.

567.

  Gillett, J.B., 1952
    Kew Bull.7:367-404. Trifolium in Africa
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