Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene rhodesiaca Harms

First published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 356 (1910)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical Africa to Limpopo. It is a perennial or annual 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: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb with prostrate or straggling stems to 15–60 cm long from a woody rootstock; young shoots glabrous or with sparse tubercular-based sticky hairs, soon glabrous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 8–14-foliolate; leaflets 4–15 × 1–3.5 mm, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, rounded and mucronulate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous; main nerve ± central; petiole and rhachis together 10–25 mm long; petiolules very short; stipules 8–28 × 1.2–8 mm, ovate, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, appendaged obliquely on one side for 1–3 mm, leaf-like, closely veined, ± persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, often apparently branched, 3–12 cm long, few–several-flowered, pubescent; peduncle 1–2 cm long, pedicels 3–7 mm long, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs; bracts 3-partite, persistent, each lobe 2–6 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles 2–3 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate, ciliolate, sometimes deeply 2-partite, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx with a few short tubercular-based hairs save near margins, 2-lipped; lips 4–5 × 2–3 mm, elliptic-oblong, one emarginate, the other 3-fid.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard orange or yellow, often veined red (and in one instance flowers stated to be pink), 6–10 × 4–6.5 mm, violin-shaped, emarginate, wings and keel yellow or orange, the petals of the latter not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 1–3(4) articles joined by very narrow necks, each article semicircular, one margin straight the other strongly curved, 2.7–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, compressed, with a few tubercular-based hairs on the faces and margins; stipe c. 3–6 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds chestnut-brown, 2 × 1.5 × 0.7 mm, semicircular-reniform, compressed; hilum round, very small, slightly eccentric.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland, Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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