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Tephrosia noctiflora Baker

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HIGHER TAXON: Millettieae

GENUS: Tephrosia Pers.

Tephrosia noctiflora Baker [Preferred name]
    Cracca noctiflora (Baker)Kuntze {Synonym}
    Tephrosia coronillifolia sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Tephrosia hirta Bojer {Synonym}
    Tephrosia hookeriana sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Tephrosia hookeriana var. amoena Prain {Synonym}
    Tephrosia subamoena Prain {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Cameroon (I) [212]; Ghana (I) [212]; Ivory Coast (I) [8]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [212]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Sierra Leone (I) [212]; South Africa (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Uganda (U) [210]; Zaire (U) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [8]
  Asia
China (I) [1974, 2884]; Guangdong [2884]; Yunnan [2884]; India (N) [210, 1914, 1915, 3027, 3376]; Orissa [3376]; Tamil Nadu [3027]; Indonesia (I) [1974]; Irian Jaya (I) [261, 1974]; Jawa (N) [1974]; Malaysia (I) [1974]; Peninsular Malaysia (N) [1974]; Philippines (I) [1974]; Sri Lanka (I) [1957]; Sulawesi (N) [1974]; Sumatera (N) [1974]; Taiwan (I) [1974, 2884]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880]; New Caledonia (I) [1974]; Papua New Guinea (I) [261, 1974]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (I) [1056]
  Indian Ocean
Comoro Is (N) [1915]; Madagascar (U) [210, 1974]; Mauritius (I) [1915]; Reunion (I) [1915]; Seychelles (N) [210, 1941]
  Pacific Ocean
Fiji (I) [2264]; Solomon Is (I) [261]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian grassland [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket. [210];
    Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland. [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 236, 261, 1915, 1919, 1941, 1957, 1974, 2884] ; Distribution Map [1974] ; Illustration [261, 1915, 1919, 1974, 2884]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [1915] [1974] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Herb [1941] [1974], Shrub [1974] ; Lifespan: Annual [261] [1915], Perennial [1915] [1974] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005), 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extrac

  
USES:
  Environmental [210, 261, 1915, 1974]; Toxins [210, 1915, 3030]; Weed [261]

  
NOTES:
  Native to Tropical Africa, Comoros and probably also India. [1915]
  Introduced to Mauritius in the 19th Century. [1915]
  Indigenous to the Seychelles. [1941]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

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

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

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

236.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge, Vol 5; Galegeae, Hedysareae.

261.

  Verdcourt, B., 1979
    A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae,PNG

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1919.

  Hacker, J.B., 1990
    A Guide to Herbaceous and Shrub Legumes of Queensland.

1941.

  Robertson, S.A., 1989
    Flowering Plants of Seychelles. Kew

1957.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    A Revised Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon 7: 108-381.

1974.

  Bosman, M.T.M. & de Haas, A.J.P., 1983
    Blumea 28(2): 421-487. A revision of the genus Tephrosia

2264.

  Parham, J.W., 1972
    Plants of the Fiji Islands

2884.

  Wei, Z., 1994
    Antheroporum &... In:Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 40 (Leguminosae 2)

3027.

  Nair, N.C. & Henry, A.N., 1983
    Flora of Tamil Nadu, India Vol.1

3030.

  Ambasta, S.P., 1986
    The useful plants of India

3376.

  Bairiganjan, G.C et al., 1985
    Fabaceae in Orissa. J. Econ. Taxon Bot. 7:249-276
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