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Fabaceae

Lessertia

Lessertia tomentosa (Thunb.) DC.

First published in Prodr. 2: 272 (1825)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Cape Prov. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

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Native to:

Cape Provinces

Homotypic Synonyms

Colutea tomentosa Thunb. in Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 135 (1800)
Sutherlandia tomentosa (Thunb.) Spreng. in Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 242 (1826)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Lessertia excisa Eckl. & Zeyh. in Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral.: 250 (1836), nom. illeg.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

International Legume Database and Information Service
- International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0