Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene burttii Baker f.

First published in J. Bot. 73: 79 (1935)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It is a shrub and 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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Dense bushy shrub 1.2–3.6 m. tall.
Morphology Stem
Stems at first pubescent, but bark soon flaking away in thin papery pieces to reveal a dark rusty brown powdery or granular layer beneath.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 40–60-foliolate; leaflets linear or narrowly linear-oblong, 4–7 mm. long, 0.8–1.5 mm. wide, acute and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, rather thick, imbricated, pubescent or glabrescent, ciliate; main nerve curved but ± central; petiole and rhachis together 2.5–4 cm. long; petiolules very short; stipules elliptic-lanceolate, 8 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide, acuminate, apiculate, not appendaged, striate, pubescent, at length deciduous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, short, not or scarcely exceeding the leaves, few-flowered; rhachis 2 cm. long; peduncle 1.5 cm. long; pedicels 5–6 mm. long; bracts narrowly ovate, 4–5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, bifid, striate, pubescent, apparently persistent; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 5 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide, acuminate, pubescent and ciliolate, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx pubescent, 2-lipped, the lips ovate or oblong, 1.1–1.4 cm. long, 4–7 mm. wide, one 2-toothed, the other deeply 3-lobed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard orange-yellow with brown veins, violin-shaped, 1.7–2 cm. long, 1–1.4 cm. wide; wings orange-yellow; keel-petals whitish, not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod of 1 or usually 2 articles joined by a narrow neck; articles elliptic or almost semicircular, one margin almost straight, the other strongly curved, 6–7 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, compressed, glabrous, reticulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds (immature) dark reddish-brown, elliptic-reniform, longest dimension 3.5 mm., shorter dimension 2.5 mm., 1 mm. thick; hilum small, round, eccentric.
Habitat
Julbernardia, Protea, Faurea, Philippia scrub woodland, very open Brachystegia woodland; 1650–2040 m.
Distribution
not known elsewhere T5 T7
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Montane woodland, Zambezian woodland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179326/1575234

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • 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

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • 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