Stylosanthes humilis

Stylosanthes humilis, the Townsville stylo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and widely introduced as a forage to the tropics of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Malesia, and Australia.[1][2] A nutritionally valuable forage plant, it was nearly wiped out in Australia in the 1970s by an outbreak of the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, which causes anthracnose disease.[2]

Stylosanthes humilis
Habit
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Stylosanthes
Species:
S. humilis
Binomial name
Stylosanthes humilis
Synonyms[1]
  • Astyposanthes humilis (Kunth) Herter
  • Stylosanthes figueroae Mohlenbr.
  • Stylosanthes sundaica Taub.

References
  1. "Stylosanthes humilis Kunth". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  2. Heuzé, V.; Tran, G.; Hassoun, P. (13 October 2015). "Townsville stylo (Stylosanthes humilis)". Feedipedia – Animal Feed Resources Information System. Feedipedia, a programme by INRAE, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. Retrieved 26 June 2021.


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