Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene gracilipes Taub.

First published in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 214 (1895)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cameroon to Kenya. 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai grasslands, Sudanian grasslands
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb/Shrub
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Subshrub of unknown habit (prostrate to ascending herb in variety), with woody stems 20–70 cm. long, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 14–24-foliolate; leaflets oblong, 3–5 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, rounded or retuse and mucronulate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, minutely punctulate, scarcely ciliate to ciliate-serrulate; venation obvious, the main nerve central, blackish-purple beneath; petiole and rhachis together 0.8–2.5 cm. long; petiolules minute; stipules linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, not spurred, 3–5 mm. long, 0.8–1.5 mm. wide, acuminate, denticulate-ciliate, soon falling or ± persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, 1–2(–few)-flowered; rhachis 0.7–3 cm. long; peduncle 5–7 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels 2–4 mm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5–3 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, denticulate-ciliate, ± persistent or soon falling; bracteoles ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2 mm. long, 0.6–0.7 mm. wide, denticulate-ciliate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 2-lipped, the lips oblong, 2–3 mm. long, 1.2–2 mm. wide, the one 2-lobed, the other 3-lobed with a narrow middle lobe, denticulate-ciliate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard probably yellow, obovate or ± round, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, 3.2–5 mm. wide, cuneate, retuse; keel-petals not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods with stipe 0.5–1.5 cm. long, 1–2-jointed, the articles semicircular, sublunate or rounded-oblong, 3–5 mm. long, 1.8–3 mm. wide, slightly inflated, compressed but not flat, joined by a very narrow neck, glabrous to ± pubescent, muricate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds brown, lunate, ± 1.3 mm. long; hilum minute, eccentric.
[FTEA]

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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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