Pycnospora

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]

Pycnospora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Pycnospora
R.Br. ex Wight & Arn. (1834)
Species:
P. lutescens
Binomial name
Pycnospora lutescens
(Poir.) Schindl. (1926)
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy
  • Colutea trifoliata (L.) Poir. (1811)
  • Crotalaria nallamalayana Rasingam & J.Swamy (2018)
  • Crotalaria nervosa Graham (1831), nom. nud.
  • Crotalaria tappenbeckiana K.Schum. & Lauterb. (1900)
  • Desmodium lutescens (Poir.) DC. (1825)
  • Desmodium viride Vogel (1843)
  • Flemingia polysperma Moon (1824)
  • Hedysarum lutescens Poir. (1805)
  • Indigofera desmodioides Benth. ex Baker (1876), not validly publ.
  • Meibomia lutescens (Poir.) Kuntze (1891)
  • Meibomia viridis (Vogel) Kuntze (1891)
  • Phaca trifoliata L. (1771), nom. utique rej.
  • Phyllodium lutescens (Poir.) Desv. (1813)
  • Pycnospora hedysaroides Benth. (1864), nom. superfl.
  • Pycnospora nervosa Wight & Arn. (1834)
  • Zornia lutescens (Poir.) Steud. (1821)

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
  1. Pycnospora R.Br. ex Wight & Arn. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  2. 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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