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Abrus suffruticosus

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Name

Identification
Abrus suffruticosus Boutique [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Abrus pulchellus Thwaites [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Abrus suffruticosus
  • Abrus pulchellus

Flora

Entry for ABRUS pulchellus (Boutique) Verdc. subsp. suffruticosus [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
ABRUS pulchellus (Boutique) Verdc. subsp. suffruticosus [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in K.B. 24: 249 (1970). Type: Congo, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], de Georgi (BR, holo.)
ABRUS suffruticosus Boutique [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in F.C.B. 6: 84, fig. 1/C, D (1954), sine descr. lat., & in B.J.B.B. 25: 127 (1955)
Information
Prostrate or ascending woody herb or subshrub 0.2–1 m. long, with a woody rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves 22–34-foliolate. Leaflets smaller, 1–1.5 cm. long, 3–4.5 mm. wide. Indumentum usually dense, the stem and rhachis with adpressed or spreading ferruginous hairs contrasting with dense silky grey hairs on the leaves. Pods 2.2–3(–4) cm. long, 0.9–1.2 cm. wide.
Range
DISTR. T4, 7, 8
Altitude range
640–1350 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Kigoma District Ujiji, R. Mkuti to Msosi, 20 Feb. 1926, Peter 37179 !TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Kalambo Falls, 26 Mar. 1960, Richards 12803!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Masukulu, 6 June 1911, Stolz 765!TANGANYIKA Songea District Mbamba Bay Escarpment, road between the two Luhekea crossings, 6 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9542!
Distribution (external)
; Sierra Leone
N. Nigeria
Congo
Malawi
Zambia
Angola
? Botswana
Notes
In East Africa the two subspecies are clearly distinct but in West Africa a range of intermediates are frequent. The whole A. pulchellus complex is very difficult to classify but one cannot agree with the extremely wide concept used by Breteler.

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