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Genus:
Hippocrepis Life
> eukaryotes >
Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
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Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
> Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants)
> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids >
Eurosid I > Fabales > Fabaceae > Subfamily: Papilionoideae
About 21 species (Europe, western Asia, Mediterranean); three
species are cultivated in southern Africa.
Species cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe
vetch)
Native to the Mediterranean. |
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Hippocrepis emerus (Scorpion
senna)
Native to Europe. |
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Hippocrepis unisiliquosa
Native from Greece to Iran. |
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