Aeschynomene brevifolia Poir.

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Conservation

Not Threatened

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Herb

Vernacular

Andriambavikelijianjakalanitra, Samboromalama, Sindrahorindrano, Sitrakovoafery, Sofitotsy, Trefle a Fleurs Jaunes, Trialaimody, Vohidrotra

Leguminosae, B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 3:6. 2000

Morphology General Habit

Short-lived perennial (?) herb with prostrate stems 10–60 cm long, rather densely pubescent with short grey usually spreading hairs and also with some longer bristly tubercular-based hairs on the young shoots.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves with an equal or unequal number of leaflets, 5–11-foliolate; leaflets 2.5–11.5 × 1.5–6.5 mm, obovate-oblong to rounded-obovate, rounded but mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded or slightly subcordate at the base, glabrous above, pilose on margins and beneath, particularly on the central main nerve; venation openly and prominently reticulate beneath; rhachis and petiole together 0.5–2 cm long; petiolules up to 0.5 mm long; stipules 3–5 × 0.8–1.8 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate or acute, not appendaged, pubescent and with longer tubercular-based glandular marginal hairs, conspicuously nervose, persistent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences axillary, 1–2(several?)-flowered, 0.5–5 cm long, peduncles 6–20 mm long; pedicels 3–6 mm long; bracts 2 × 1 mm, asymmetrically ovate, acuminate, nervose, ciliate, persistent; bracteoles 2 × 1.5 mm, elliptic, nervose, ciliate, persistent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx pubescent, 3 mm long, obscurely 2-lipped, 5-lobed, lobes c. 1.5 mm long, 2 just over 1 mm wide, 3 just under 1 mm wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Wings and keel yellow, the latter not laciniate. Standard yellow or orange, 7 mm long and wide, almost round, sparsely pubescent outside.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary densely silky.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit of 1–4 articles joined by narrow necks but contiguous, each article semicircular, 3.5–4.5 × 3–3.5 mm, appressed puberulous, slightly reticulate, strongly margined; stipe 2–5 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds pale olive-coloured, 2.3 × 1.8 × 1 mm, ellipsoidal-reniform, with an eccentric minute raised dark hilum.