Argyrolobium eylesii Baker f.

Leguminosae, various authors. Flora Zambesiaca 3:7. 2003

Morphology General Habit

Erect subshrub up to 30 cm tall, with few to many stems from a woody taproot.

Morphology Stem

Stems slender, usually less than 2 mm in diameter, up to c. 3 mm in diameter at the perennial base, grey or yellowish villous or sericeous.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves usually well spaced; leaflets elliptic to widely obovate, subacute to rounded and apiculate at the apex, cuneate to obtuse at the base, sparsely pilose to whitish, greyish or yellowish tomentose or sericeous above and beneath; the terminal leaflets mostly 1.5–3 times as long as the petiole, 17–33 × 9–18 mm; petiole 5–15 mm long; stipules sometimes 3 at each node, 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm, linear to narrowly triangular, free, sericeous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescence leaf-opposed, pedunculate, racemose but usually 1-flowered, sometimes 2–3-flowered; peduncle 5–70 mm long; bracts 3–6 mm long, linear.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx 12–14 mm long, pilose to sericeous outside; the upper lip 2-lobed to near the base, the lobes lanceolate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Corolla yellow, turning reddish with age; standard 13–17 × 11–15 mm, obovate, sparsely to densely silky pubescent or tomentose outside on the upper half, glabrous or subglabrous to the base; wings 11–13 × 4–5 mm, obovate-oblong, with rows of folds between the upper veins, whitish pilose near apex; keel as long as the wings, the petals with a well developed crest towards the base, glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pod 25–50 × 4–5 mm, oblong, flat, sericeous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds not seen.