Taxon:  Eriosema psoraleoides (Lam.) G. Don



Summary
Genus:
Eriosema
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Cajaninae
Nomen number:
15649
Place of publication:
Gen. hist. 2:348.  1832
Verified:
03/09/2015 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
3 (2  active, 2  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Crotalaria psoraleoides Lam.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Eriosema cajanoides (Guill. & Perr.) Hook. f.
Rhynchosia cajanoides Guill. & Perr.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)
  1. Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali
  2. Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames
  3. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
  4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  5. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
  6. Jacques-Félix, H. 1971. Observations sur les espèces du genre Eriosema de République centrafricaine, du Cameroun et d'Afrique occidentale. Adansonia sér. 2, 11:157.
  7. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
  8. Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
  9. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNoteReference
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaChad  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaEswatini  Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natal Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaLimpopo Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaMpumalanga Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaNorth-West Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBenin  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaBurkina Faso  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaLiberia  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaBurundi  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCentral African Republic  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCongo  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaGabon  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West]
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Reference(s)
  1. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource). Note: as E psoraloides
  2. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=15649. Accessed 15 April 2026.