Stylosanthes humilis
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Stylosanthes |
Species: | S. humilis
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Stylosanthes humilis | |
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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]
References[]
- ^ a b "Stylosanthes humilis Kunth". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ a b 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.
Categories:
- Stylosanthes
- Forages
- Flora of Mexico
- Flora of Central America
- Flora of Cuba
- Flora of the Venezuelan Antilles
- Flora of Colombia
- Flora of northern South America
- Flora of Brazil
- Flora of Paraguay
- Plants described in 1824
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