Fabaceae
Aeschynomene

Aeschynomene stipulosa Verdc.

First published in Kew Bull. 24: 13 (1970)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial prostrate herb with 5–20 branches 8–20 cm long from a tuberous rootstock which bears narrow roots 11–15 cm long; young shoots sparsely setulose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 8–36-foliolate; leaflets 4–12 × 1.5–4 mm, oblong, rounded and mucronulate at the apex, truncate or obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous, minutely obscurely punctulate; main nerve central; rhachis and petiole together 1–4.5 cm long, ± setulose; petiolules short; stipules 8–15 × 2.5–4 mm, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, subcordate or appendaged on one side at the base, leaf-like, glabrous, nervose, persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary, shorter than the leaves, 5–6 cm long, 5–6-flowered, glabrous or sparsely setulose; peduncles 1.5–2 cm long; pedicels 2.5–6.5 mm long; bracts deciduous or subpersistent, 2-fid or 3-fid, the lobes 2.5–5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, lanceolate; bracteoles 3.5 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate, acute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous, 2-lipped; lips 6–7.5 × 3–4 mm, ovate-oblong, one subacute, the other minutely 3-fid.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard apricot-coloured, 7.5–9.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm, somewhat violin-shaped, slightly widened above; wings free; keel petals not laciniate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit of 1–2 articles joined by a narrow neck; articles ± semicircular, 6 × 3.5 mm, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
[FZ]

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
[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