African Plant Database


Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.
Family : FABACEAE
Protologue : Publ. Field Columbian Mus., Bot. Ser. 2(1): 53 (1900)
Information on the genus : Cajanus
Basionym : Cytisus cajan L.
 
 
Status
Statuts nomenclatural : superfluous combination
Status for MA : rejected (present), is synonym of : Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth
Status for SA : rejected (naturalised-introduced)
Status for TA : rejected (naturalised-introduced)
 
Synonym(s) Homotypic
 Cytisus cajan L. (1753)
 Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth (1893)
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Cajanus indicus Spreng. (1826)
 
Ecology and distribution
Trop. Afr.
Biology : Annual or short-lived perennial evergreen shrub to 3 m tall, with erect ribbed, densely pubescent stems; leaflets silvery beneath. Very variable.
Ecology : Not known in the wild state; cultivated throughout the tropics.
  Probably of African origin; or Indian. Can be confused with Dolichos pseudocajanus. Also resembling a Crotalaria species.
Mada.
Biol./Eco : Shrub; Subhumid, Dry; Grassland, Anthropic; 0-499 m, 500-999 m, 1000-1499 m; distribution: Naturalised in Madagascar.

Bibliography for Southern Africa :
  • Drug Pl. Africa : 80 (1949).
  • Legumes of Africa: a checklist : 388 (1989).
 
More info on :
see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative
see under The Euro-Mediterranean Plant Base
see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale
see under Catalogue de Madagascar
see under Flora of Mozambique
see under Tropicos
see under Flora of Zimbabwe
 
Map
carte afrique num 61964
 
Record n°61964 modified 2013-05-24
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