Family Fabaceae


Scientific name	Coll. Nr.	Habitat	Growth form	English name	Shona name
CAESALPINIOIDEAE MIMOSOIDEAE PAPILIONOIDEAE Aeschyomene
A. nodulosa (Baker) Baker f. var. nodulosa	7	Grassland	T	Small leaved Knuckle-bean, False Teeth Bush

Calpurnia
C. aurea (Aiton) Benth. ssp aurea		Forest margin	ST	Wild Laburnum

Craibia
C. brevicaudata (Vatke) Dunn ssp. baptistarum (Büttner) J.B. Gillett		Montane evergreen forest	T	Craibia	Mushabvu, Chitsarara

Dalbergiella
D. boehmii
D. nyasae Baker f.		Deciduous woodland and thicket	T	Mane-pod	Munyamhanji, Munyenza, Muvengahonye, Muswati

Desmodium
D. repandum (Vahl) DC		Fringes of evergreen and riverine forest	P
Eriosema
E. sp. 39	39	Grassland	P	Heart-leaved Eriosema
E. chrysadenium Toub. var. chrysadenium	40	Grassland	P

Erythrina
E. lysistemon Hutch		Fringes of woodland and in rocky submontane grassland	T	Common Coral Tree, Lucky Bean Tree
Indigofera
I. hilaris Eckl. & Zeyh. var. hilaris	47	Grassland	P	Gay Indigofera
I. cecilii N.E.Br.	53	Grassland
I. spec. nr 80	80	Grassland
I. lyallii	100	Woodland	S sT	Red Indigo tree

Lotus
L. namulensis	41	Grassland

Mundulea
M. sericea (Willd.) A. Chev.	101	Woodland	TS	Cork Bush

Otholobium
O. foliosum (Oliv.) C.H.Stirt ssp. gazense (Baker f.)		Edges of evergreen forest and montane grassland	S

Pseudarthria
P . hookeri Wight & Arn. var hookeri		Woodland, bracken scrub and grass, rocky terrain, road sides.	P	Bug Catcher

Pterocarpus
P. angolensis DC		Grassland and woodland	T	Mukwa, Bloodwood	Mubvamakovo, Mubvinziropa, Mukambira, Mukwa, Mushambaropa
P. rotundifolius (Sond.) Druce ssp. rotundifolius		Wooded grassland and woodland.	T	Round-leaved Bloodwood	Muchirara, Mumbungu, Mupungu

Rhynchosia
R. monophylla Schltr.		Open grassland and woodlands	P
Tephrosia
T. lurida Sond. var. Drummondii Brummitt.	55	Grassland	P
Unknown

Vigna
Vigna sp.

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