Pycnospora
Genus of legumes
Pycnospora | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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 |
Binomial name | |
Pycnospora lutescens (Poir.) Schindl. (1926) | |
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]
References
- ^ a b c Pycnospora R.Br. ex Wight & Arn. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Williams, Paul R.; Congdon, Robert A.; Grice, Anthony C.; Clarke, Peter J. (28 June 2008). "Germinable soil seed banks in a tropical savanna: seasonal dynamics and effects of fire.: TROPICAL SEED BANK DYNAMICS AND FIRE". Austral Ecology. 30 (1): 79–90. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01426.x.
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