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Stylosanthes viscosa

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Name

Identification
Stylosanthes viscosa Sw. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Stylosanthes glutinosa
  • Stylosanthes viscosa
  • Hedysarum hamatum
  • Stylosanthes guianensis
  • Stylosanthes prostrata
Common name
  • bala korama (K&A) (SENEGAL, MAINDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • mbono muso (Hayes fide JMD) nbono (Hallam) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bala korama (K&A) (SENEGAL, MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • wild lucerne., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • damel (Hallam) (THE GAMBIA, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • bâda gotur (K&A) (SENEGAL, DIOLA (Fogny)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • damel (A.Chev.) (SENEGAL, NON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for STYLOSANTHES viscosa Ser. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
STYLOSANTHES viscosa Ser. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], DC. Prod. ii. 317. Vogel in Linnæa, xii. 66.
Information
A copiously branched erect shrub, 1–3 ft. high, the branches densely clothed with fine gland-tipped grey hairs. Stipules adnate, 1/4– 3/8 in. deep, scarious, viscous on the back like the stem, the points rigid, setaceous. Leaflets narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 3/8– 1/2 in. long, 2 lines broad, glabrous or pubescent on both faces. Spike ovate, dense, few-flowered; bracts 1/4 in. deep, densely bristly on the back and edge. Calyx 1/8 in. deep, the lobes ciliated. Pod with usually only a single articulation, nearly glabrous, the style very short.
Range
A common Tropical American species.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Don fide Bentham, in Fl. Nigr. 301.

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