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Crotalaria spinosa Benth.

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HIGHER TAXON: Crotalarieae

GENUS: Crotalaria L.

Crotalaria spinosa Benth. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [461]; Burundi (N) [461]; Ethiopia (N) [461]; Kenya (N) [461]; Rwanda (N) [461]; Senegal (N) [461]; Sudan (N) [461]; Tanzania (N) [461]; Uganda (N) [461]; Zambia (N) [461]; Zimbabwe (N) [461]
  Middle East
South Yemen (N) [1939]; Yemen (N) [1939]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane grassland [461];
    Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands [461];
    Somalia-Masai grasslands [461];
    Zambezian grassland [461];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 461] ; Distribution Map [461] ; Illustration [24, 461]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Annual ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

210.

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

461.

  Polhill, R.M., 1982
    A.A.Balkema,Rotterdam 389pp Crotalaria in Africa & Madagasca

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.
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