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Pearsonia metallifera Wild

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HIGHER TAXON: Crotalarieae

GENUS: Pearsonia Dummer

Pearsonia metallifera Wild [Accepted]
  
VERNACULAR NAME: -
  
PLACES: -
  Africa
    Zimbabwe (N) [507]
  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Zambezian grassland [507]
  
DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing
  Conservation Status: Insufficiently known
  Habit: Herb
  Lifespan: Perennial
  Nodules: Present [1785]
  Source: Lock,J.M.(1988) African Checklist
  
USES: -

  
NOTES:
  Occurs on serpentine soils of the Great Dyke (Polhill 1974, ref.507).
  Hyperaccumulator of Ni,Co,Mn (Brooks & Xing-hua Yang,1984,Taxon 33:392-9).


DATA SOURCES:

507.

   Polhill,R.M., 1974
    Kew Bull.29:383-410.A revison of Pearsonia (Leg.-Papil.).
    Kew Bull.29:383-410.A revison of Pearsonia (Leg.-Papil.).

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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