Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene pseudoglabrescens Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 11 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland 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]

International Legume Database and Information Service

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

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

Morphology General Habit
Subshrubby herb with 1–5 erect stems 15–35 cm tall from a woody rootstock bearing some long tuberous roots; young stems glabrous or very sparsely setulose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 8–46-foliolate; leaflets 4–13 × 2–4.5 mm, oblong or narrowly oblong, truncate or rounded and mucronulate at the apex, subtruncate or obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, often glaucous, obscurely minutely punctulate; main nerve central, rest of venation prominent; rhachis and petiole together 1.5–10 cm long, glabrous or with a row of bristly hairs; petiolules 0.5 mm long; stipules 6–2 × 3–6.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, not appendaged or conspicuously unequally appendaged on both sides at the base, leaf-like, glabrous, nervose, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences terminal and axillary, 3–12.5 cm long, 6–16-flowered, mostly glabrous; peduncles 10–25 mm long; pedicels 4–12 mm long, glabrous or very sparsely setulose; bracts 3–4 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ovate-oblong, shortly divided into 2 acute triangular lobes, soon deciduous or rarely subpersistent; bracteoles 2–4 × 0.8–1.5 mm, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, at length deciduous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 6–9 × 2–4.5 mm, oblong, one emarginate, the other 3-toothed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, 11 × 5 mm, oblong, slightly widened above; keel petals not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 1 (perhaps sometimes 2 since 2-ovuled ovaries have been seen) almost semicircular article, 8.5–9.5 × 6–6.5 mm, compressed, glabrous, reticulately nerved.
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/

  • 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