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| Family : FABACEAE |
Protologue : Sp. Pl. 2: 713-714 (1753)  |
| Information on the genus : Aeschynomene |
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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) Heterotypic |
| =Aeschynomene oligantha Welw. ex Baker (1871) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Erect subshrubby annual or perennial herb, 0,3-2,5 m tall; stems mostly slender, ± 5 mm Ø at the base but sometimes thick and spongy to 2,5 cm Ø, pubescent, with mostly rather sparse tubercular-based sometimes glandular hairs; etc... |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Mostly in wet places, floodplain grassland, flats, pans, swamp margins, pools in Acacia, etc. wooded grassland; desert grassland, bushland, woodland; sometimes on black saline clay soils; ... |
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São Tomé; Namibia, Botswana, S. Africa; Madagascar; tropical and subtropical Asia; Australia, N. America. Introduced in the Mascarenes. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
Herb, Shrub; Subhumid, Dry, Subarid; Freshwater Wetland, Anthropic; 0-499 m, 500-999 m, 1000-1499 m; distribution: Mascarenes, Africa, Asia, Australasia/Pacific, New World, |
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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 : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| 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°63409 modified 2007-03-30 |
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