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Tephrosia noctiflora Baker

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia noctiflora Baker [Accepted]
  
VERNACULAR NAME: -
  
PLACES: -
  Africa
    Cameroon (I) [212]; Ghana (I) [212]; Ivory Coast (I) [8]
    Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Malawi (N) [210]
    Mozambique (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (I) [212]
    South Africa (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]
    Uganda (U) [210]; Zaire (U) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Asia
    India-ISO (N) [210]
  Indian Ocean
    Madagascar (U) [210]
  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [210], Zambezian bushland and thicket [210]
    Zambezian grassland [210]
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [210]
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [210]
  
DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing
  Conservation Status: Not Threatened
  Habit: Herb, Shrub
  Lifespan: Annual
  Nodules: Present [1785]
  Source: Lock,J.M.(1988) African Checklist

  
USES:
  Environmental [1785,210]; Toxins [1785,210,210]; Weed

  
NOTES:
  Distribution probably extended by cultivation (FTEA, ref.210).


DATA SOURCES:

8.

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

210.

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

212.

   Hepper,F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

1785.

   Allen,O.N. & Allen,E.K., 1981
    The Leguminosae, A Source Book of Characteristics,Uses,&Nod.
    The Leguminosae, A Source Book of Characteristics,Uses,&Nod.
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