Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene gazensis Baker f.

First published in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 56 (1911)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zimbabwe. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/66106709/66106713

Conservation
EN - endangered
[IUCN]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 0.9–1.8 m tall; young stems densely covered with short bristly tubercular-based hairs, older stems purplish, somewhat ridged and glabrescent.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 14–24-foliolate; leaflets 1–4(5) × 0.6–1.2 mm, elliptic to oblong, mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, the main nerve ± central; petiole and rhachis together 8–15 mm long, pubescent with bristly hairs; petiolules minute; stipules 3–9 × 0.5–2.5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, unappendaged, glabrous, at length deciduous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences 1.6–3 cm long, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs; peduncles 3–6 mm long; pedicels 2 mm long, similarly pubescent; bracts 2–3-fid, 1.5–2.5 × 0.5–1 mm, elliptic, deciduous; bracteoles 2 × 1 mm, ovate to lanceolate, slightly ciliolate at the apex, sometimes slightly 2–3-fid, deciduous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 6 × 3–4 mm, ovate or ovate-oblong, one scarcely emarginate, the other very slightly 3-toothed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow or bronze-yellow, veined with brown, 10–12 × 6.5–7 mm, obovate; wings and keel yellow, the petals of the latter not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 2 articles joined by a narrow neck, each article semicircular, 4–5 × 3.5–4 mm, glabrous or very sparsely setulose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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