Taxon:
Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw. var. guianensis
Summary
Verified:
08/14/1987
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993
- Cameron, A. G. et al. 1995. Performance of forages introduced into Kalimantan, Indonesia, by the South-East Asian Forage Seeds Project. Genet. Res. Commun. 21:2.
- Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Stylosanthes+guianensis+var.+guianensis&quantity=1
- Hacker, J. B. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland. 1990 Note: University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Australia
- Lock, J. M. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. 1989
- McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983-
- Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. 1995- Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
- 't Mannetje, L. 1984. Considerations on the taxonomy of the genus Stylosanthes. The biology and agronomy of Stylosanthes. 1984 12. Note: mentions
- Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- A:256. http://proseanet.org
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Common names
English
Brazilian stylo – Brazilian-lucerne – Cook stylo – stylo – French
luzerne brésilienne – luzerne du Brésil – luzerne tropicale – German
brasilianische Luzerne – Portuguese
alfalfa-do-nordeste – Spanish
alfalfa de Brasil – lengua de rana –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Chiapas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guerrero | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Jalisco | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Nayarit | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Oaxaca | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Puebla | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Veracruz | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | n.e. |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | e. |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Cordoba | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Corrientes | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Misiones | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | n. |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere |
Native
Northern America
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SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz]
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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MESOAMERICA:
Costa Rica (n.e.), Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua (e.), Panama
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina [Cordoba, Corrientes, Misiones], Paraguay
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia (n.), Colombia, Peru
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
erosion control (fide Pl Res SEAs A:256. 1989) –