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Pyranthus alasoa Du Puy & Labat

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Pyranthus Du Puy & Labat

Pyranthus alasoa Du Puy & Labat [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Alasoa [2992, 3402]; Halasoa [2992, 3402]; Tambarisaho [3402]; Tambarisatio [2992]; Tranosoa [2992, 3402]; Velasoa [2992, 3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [2992, 3402]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3402] ; Illustration [3402]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3402] ; Habit: Shrub [3402], Tree [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3402] ; Source(s): 1999 (Missing Genera) Brandt SM & Heald J, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Medicine [2992, 3402]; Wood [2992, 3402]

  
NOTES:
  Tephrosia but differ in its straighter androecium and gynoecium. [3402]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2992.

  Du Puy, D.J. & Labat, J.N., 1995
    Kew Bull. 50:73. Pyranthus, a new genus....

3402.

  Du Puy, D.J. et al., 2002
    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.

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