Desmodium repandum (Vahl) DC. |
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Family : FABACEAE |
Protologue : Prodr. (DC.) 2: 334 (1825)  |
Information on the genus : Desmodium |
Basionym : Hedysarum repandum Vahl |
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Status
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Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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Synonym(s) Homotypic |
Hedysarum repandum Vahl (1791) |
Podocarpium repandum (Vahl) Y.C. Yang & P.H. Huang |
Hylodesmum repandum (Vahl) H. Ohashi & R.R. Mill (2000) |
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Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
=Desmodium caffrum Eckl. & Zeyh. |
=Desmodium scalpe DC. (1825) |
=Desmodium strangulatum Wight & Arn. |
=Desmodium aparine Chiov. (1935) non Desmodium aparines (Link) DC. |
=Desmodium schimperi A. Rich. |
=Aeschynomene remota Poir. (1798) |
=Desmodium remotum (Poir.) Drake (1902) |
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Ecology and distribution |
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Biology : |
Perennial herb or slender shrub woody at the base, climbing, scrambling, or forming dense undergrowth 0,3-4 m tall; |
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Ecology : |
Occasional in shady grassland and marginal areas of cultivated land; more often one of the dominant components of shaded places in dry evergreen forest or rain-forest or at the forest margin; riverine vegetation; Podocarpus forest; 400-3050 m alt. |
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Tropics and subtropics of the Old World. |
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Biol./Eco : |
Herb; Humid, Subhumid; Forest, Anthropic; 500-999 m, 1000-1499 m, 1500-1999 m; distribution: Mascarenes, Africa, Asia, |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
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More info on : |
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see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
see under Catalogue de Madagascar |
see under Flora of Mozambique |
see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden |
see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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Record n°62179 modified 2007-04-02 |
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