Pycnospora | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Tribe: | Desmodieae |
Subtribe: | Desmodiinae |
Genus: |
Pycnospora R.Br. ex Wight & Arn. (1834) |
Species: | P. lutescens
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Binomial name | |
Pycnospora lutescens (Poir.) Schindl. (1926)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Synonymy
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Pycnospora lutescens is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a subshrub or perennial native to east-central tropical Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia, eastern Malesia, and northern Australia. [1] It is the sole species in genus Pycnospora. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. [2]
In Africa, Pycnospora lutescens grows in woodland, bushland, grassland, and thicket in the Victoria Basin forest–savanna mosaic, and woodland, bushland, and thicket in the Somali-Masai region of Kenya and Tanzania. [1]