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Eriosema pulcherrimum Taub.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Eriosema (DC.)Rchb.

Eriosema pulcherrimum Taub. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Benin (N) [3237]; Cameroon (N) [230]; Central African Rep. (N) [313]; Congo (N) [212]; Gabon (N) [8]; Ghana (N) [212]; Mali (N) [8]; Nigeria (N) [230]; Sudan (N) [212]; Togo (N) [23]; Zaire (N) [230]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; woodland [230];
    Guinea-Congolia/Zambezia regional transition zone; woodland. [230];
    Sudanian woodland [230];
    Zambezian woodland [230];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [29, 230] ; Illustration [230]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2001-03 van der Maesen LJG ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 van der Maesen, LJG ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [230]; Medicine [230]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

23.

  Ern, H., 1984
    Leguminosae. In:Flore analytique du Togo.Brunel,J.F. et al.

29.

  Andrews, F.W., 1952
    The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan;Vol.2.

212.

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

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae

313.

  Jacques-Felix, H., 1971
    Adansonia ser.2,11:141-99.Obs.sur quelqs.esp.Eriosema

3237.

  van der Maesen, L.J.G., 2001
    Personal Communication.
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