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Alysicarpus glumaceus is a plant in the legume family Fabaceae.
Alysicarpus glumaceus is native to Africa, Asia-Temperate and Asia-Tropical. Within these places, the environment at which it is found in grasslands, woodlands, wooded grasslands, Mediterranean forests, and Boreal forests/Taiga. It is usually found on black cotton soils in swampy grasslands or as a weed in maize fields. Alysicarpus glumaceus can also be found in Australia and Queensland but as an introduced species. It has successfully adapted to multiple biomes, suggesting they can easily replace native species in different biomes. Furthermore, nestedness reflects differential dispersal ability to isolated biome in varying spatial scales. Nestedness in the monophyletic clade (MP) is largely linked to energy availability, resulting in lower species richness in colder biomes than in tropical biomes. However, the presence of some species adapted to harsher environments within this clade is expected given that N-fixation is prevalent in the subfamily Papilionoideae.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alysicarpus glumaceus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
