Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene bullockii J.Léonard

First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 24: 71 (1954)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is DR Congo to Tanzania. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/111316599/111316673

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Erect very glandular subshrubby herb, 10–35 cm. tall, with several shoots from a woody rootstock, mostly flowering after burns, or a woody trailer or climber 0.5–1 m. long.
Morphology Stem
Stems covered with short tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 6–12-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or oblong, 0.6–2.4 cm. long, 0.35–1.2 cm. wide, emarginate or rounded and usually mucronate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, or pubescent on midvein beneath, ciliate; main nerve noticeably oblique, curved; petiole and rhachis 1.5–5 cm. long, pubescent with short tubercular-based hairs; petiolules ± 1 mm. long; stipules oblong or elliptic, 0.7–1.5 cm. long, 4–7 mm. wide, bilaterally appendaged at the base, leafy, glabrescent, ciliate, nervose, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, several-flowered; rhachis 3.5 cm. long; peduncle 3.5–4 cm. long; pedicels 3–6 mm. long, pubescent; bracts 2-lobed, persistent, the lobes elliptic, 3–6 mm. long, 0.8–2.5 mm. wide; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. wide, ciliolate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2-lipped, the lips ovate-elliptic, 4–5.5 mm. long, 2.5–3.5 mm. wide, one 2-toothed, the other 3-toothed at the apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard orange-yellow, violin-shaped, 8 mm. long, 5.5 mm. wide, often emarginate, glabrous; wings and keel-petals orange-yellow, the latter not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods of 1 article (or sometimes 2 articles joined by a narrow neck), ± semicircular in outline, 4.2 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide, glabrous, reticulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
Habitat
Poor grassland on very stony grey soil in area of rounded hills surrounded by bamboo and subjected to severe burning, Brachystegia woodland; 1350–1500 m.
Distribution
T1 T4 NE. Congo
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0