''Stylosanthes humilis'', the Townsville stylo, is a species of flowering plant in the family
, native to the New World Tropics, and widely introduced as a
forage
Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term ''forage'' has meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used m ...
to the tropics of Africa, India, Southeast Asia,
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...
, 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
''Glomerella cingulata'' is a fungal plant pathogen, being the name of the sexual stage (teleomorph) while the more commonly referred to asexual stage (anamorph) is called ''Colletotrichum gloeosporioides''. For most of this article the pathogen ...
'', which causes anthracnose disease.
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humilis
Forages
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Central America
Flora of Cuba
Flora of the Venezuelan Antilles
Flora of Colombia
Flora of northern South America
Flora of Brazil
Flora of Paraguay
Plants described in 1824
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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