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Platysepalum
Platysepalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 13 species of small trees, shrubs, or lianas native to tropical Africa, from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Angola and Mozambique. Most species are native to the Guineo-Congolian forests of west and west-central Africa, and one is native to the tropical Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forests of Africa's eastern (Indian Ocean) coast. Habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland forests, often in disturbed...
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Platysepalum hirsutum
speciesPlatysepalum hirsutum
Platysepalum chevalieri
speciesPlatysepalum chevalieri
Platysepalum vanderystii
speciesPlatysepalum vanderystii
Platysepalum inopinatum
speciesPlatysepalum inopinatum
Platysepalum scaberulum
speciesPlatysepalum scaberulum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 442274.