Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene inyangensis Wild

First published in Kew Bull. 8: 93 (1953)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa. 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: low confidence
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/122446904/122447064

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

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

Morphology General Habit
Branched shrub 0.3–1.2 m tall; young shoots densely covered with short bristly mostly tubercular-based glandular curved hairs; old shoots grey-brown or purplish, glabrescent, ridged.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves and petioles reduced to a linear vestige, 2–4.5 × 0.5–0.75 mm, cuspidate, minutely pellucid-punctate, 1–3-nerved, with margins hyaline and minutely setulose near the apex, mostly deciduous; or sometimes leaves 12–16-foliolate, c. 10 mm long with leaflets 3–4 × 0.5–0.7 mm, linear-oblong; stipules thick, congested, 2.5–5(7.5) × 1–1.5 mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, slightly convolute, 4–7-nerved, pellucid-punctate between the nerves and with minutely setulose hyaline margins, unappendaged.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, lax, 1–3-flowered, 10–15 mm long, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs; peduncle 3–5 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long, setulose; bracts mostly clearly 3-fid, 3 × 1.5 mm, ovate-elliptic, margins smooth or sparsely ciliolate, deciduous; bracteoles 2.5–3 × 1.5 mm, ovate to lanceolate, margins smooth or sparsely ciliolate, deciduous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 6 × 4–5 mm, oblong-ovate or ovate, upper acute, lower minutely 3-toothed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, lined with brown, 9–11 × 4.5–8 mm, obovate; wings and keel yellow, the petals of the latter not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a narrow neck, each article elliptic, 5–7 × 3.5–4 mm, compressed, sparsely setulose, the margins thickened.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds purplish-brown, 3.5–4 × 2–3 mm, asymmetrically semicircular; hilum minute, asymmetrical.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Shrub
[ILDIS]

Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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