Fabaceae
Eriosema

Eriosema triforme Burgt

First published in Kew Bull. 67: 264 (2012)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Guinea. It is a perennial or tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Guinea

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Luebert, F. (2013). A revision of Heliotropium sect. Cochranea (Heliotropiaceae). Kew Bulletin 68: 1-54. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • Gillett, J. B., Polhill, R. M. & Verdcourt, B. (1971). Flora of Tropical East Africa. Leguminosae, part 4, subfamily Papilionoideae (2). Crown agents for oversea governments and administrations.
  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
  • Jacques-Félix, H. (1971). Observations sur les espèces du genre Eriosema de RépubliqueCentrafricaine, du Cameroun et d’Afriqueoccidentale. Adansonia, ser. 2, 11 (1) 141 – 199.
  • Keay, R. W. J. (1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa, volume 1, part 2. Crown agents for oversea governments and administrations.
  • Lebrun, J.-P. & Stork, A. L. (2008). Tropical African Flowering Plants. Ecology and Distribution. Vol. 4: Leguminosae: Fabaceae (Desmodium – Zornia). Editions des Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Genève.
  • Lewis, G., Schrire, B., Mackinder, B. & Lock, M. (eds) (2005). Legumes of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lisowski, L. (2009). Flore (Angiospermes) de la République de Guinée. Scripta Bot. Belg.; 41: National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Meise.
  • Pope, G. V. & Polhill, R. M. (2001). Flora Zambesiaca. Vol. 3, part 5. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Tisserant, C. (1930). Eriosema de l’Oubangui. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 2: 313 – 323.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1971). Studies in the Leguminosae-Papilionoideae for the ‘Flora of Tropical East Africa’: V. Kew Bull. 25: 65 – 146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2011 Haba, P.M.; Burgt, X.M., van der; Couch, C. [61] Guinea K000460499 Holotype Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0