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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Much-branched spreading annual or short-lived perennial, 10‒70 cm tall, covered with longish appressed or spreading hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, pilose on both surfaces. Flowers few to numerous in heads or short dense (rarely lax) racemes on a slender relatively well developed peduncle. Pod sessile, 4‒7.5 x 2‒3 mm, ellipsoid-oblong or conoid-cordiform, pubescent, c. 8‒12 seeded. |
Type location: |
Sudan |
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Derivation of specific name: | microcarpa: with small fruits. |
Habitat: | In a variety of habitats, but generally in open places on soils in rocky sies or on hard pans., often ruderal. |
Altitude range: | 150 - 1250 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in the savanna regions of tropical Africa, from Mali and Ethiopia to Zimbabwe and Botswana. |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | B,C,E,S |
Zambian distribution (Provinces): | E,Lk,S,W |
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Red data list status: | Lower Risk - least concern |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Monday 18 September 2017 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 218. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 47. Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 160. Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 160. |
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