Aeschynomene nyassana Taub.

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Aeschynomene nyassana

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Species id:130570
Image id:3
Image number:27919
Photographer: L Merrett
Picture label:Mutinondo Wilderness Area
Feb 2013
Photo: Lari Merret
Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen:0
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Image notes:Sample LM450

Record details:

Record id:80460
Date: 18 May 2010
Recorder(s):L Merrett
Collector(s): L Merrett
LM_450
Determiner(s):KB Vollesen
Confirmer(s):
Herbarium:K
Habitat: Miombo woodland. Tree layer: Julbernadia paniculata, Brachystegia floribunda, B. longifolia, Protea angolensis var. divericata, P. angolensis var. trichanthera, Parinari curatellifolia, Ekebergia benguelensis, Syzygium guineense subsp. macrocarpum, Bobgunnia (Swartzia) madagascariensis, Uapaca kirkiana, Ochna pulchra, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia, Garcinia huillensis, Rourea orientalis. Herb layer: Hypoestis forskaoli, Psychotria spithamea, Inula glomerata, Schistostephium artemisiifolium, Hibiscus rhodanthus, Psychotria djumaensis, Cyphostemma kerkvoordei. Sandy loam soil.
Location: Mutinondo Widerness Area, Mayense Main Camp: Along drive to Mafone rd.
Location code(s): 116
Outing code:
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Zambia
Quarter Degree Square: 1231A4
Grid reference:
FZ Divisions (Flora Zambesiaca): N
Current administrative provinces: Mc
Altitude (metres): 1488
Notes: Herb with many pink thorny, sticky branches and leaf stalks from a single stem from a woody rootstock. Leaves long upto +-30cm with +-40 pairs of grey green leaflets +-5x8mm, evenly spaced, slightly overlapping, louvered all along rachis. Leaflets notched at tips, stalkless, cordate. Fruit: sunglass shaped, translucent with on kidney shaped seed visible in each compartment.
3 examples noticed within Mutinondo
Latitude, Longitude: -12.475500, 31.287067
Location accuracy code: 6

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: individual images: Aeschynomene nyassana.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/image-display.php?species_id=130570&image_id=3, retrieved 28 March 2024

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