Home | > | List of families | > | Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae | > | Aeschynomene | > | semilunaris |
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Status: | Native |
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Shrub 1.5–4.5 m tall; bark rough, greyish- to reddish-brown, sometimes lenticellate, appearing jointed at the nodes due to the scars formed by the deciduous stipules; young shoots densely covered with glandular tubercular-based hairs. Leaves 10–28-foliolate, up to 9 cm long; leaflets oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong, 2.5–17 mm long, rounded to slightly emarginate and very shortly mucronulate at the apex, asymmetric at the base, entire; venation visible beneath; stipules conspicuous, 5–25 × 2.5–8 mm, oblong to lanceolate, deciduous or a few sometimes persistent, hairless or pubescent. Inflorescences in axillary racemes, 3–7 cm long, hairy like the stems, sometimes together appearing as a terminal inflorescence; peduncles 1.3–2 cm long; pedicels 5–6 mm long. Calyx reddish, hairless, 2-lipped; one 2-fid, the other 3-fid. Standard pale yellow, sometimes veined lilac, or crimson, rounded oblong, 10–11 mm long; wings and keel yellow, the latter much exceeding the standard. Fruit of 1–2 semicircular articles, 10–20 × 6–10 mm, compressed, hairless or with a few obscure hairs on the rounded margin. |
Type location: |
Zambia, Kaloswe |
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Habitat: | On rocky slopes and ridges in Brachystegia–Protea woodland and along margins of evergreen forest. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 2150 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Northern Malawi and Zambia. |
National distribution: | N,C,E |
Zambian distribution (Provinces): | N,Mc,C |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 16 September 2018 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 152. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 57. Verdcourt, B. (1974). Summary of the Leguminosae - Papilionoideae - Hedysareae (sensu lato) of Flora Zambesiaca Kirkia 9(2) Pages 396 - 397. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 78 - 79. |
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