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Stylosanthes humilis
Also called Townsville Lucerne, Wild Lucerne
Townsville stylo is a low, spreading or upright subshrub legume grown mainly as a pasture and forage plant in tropical and subtropical regions. It thrives in warm, seasonally dry conditions with well-drained soil and little fuss.
Stylosanthes humilis, the Townsville stylo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and widely introduced as a forage to the tropics of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Malesia, and Australia. A nutritionally valuable forage plant, it was nearly wiped out in Australia in the 1970s by an outbreak of the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, which causes anthracnose disease.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stylosanthes humilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
