Eriosema pauciflorum Klotzsch

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/97218015/97218036

Conservation

LC - least concern

Leguminosae, B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 3:5. 2001

Morphology General Habit

Prostrate, ascending or suberect pyrophytic herb or subshrub, with several to many unbranched or sparsely branched stems 10–45(80) cm long from a woody rootstock.

Morphology Stem

Stems of few to many internodes, with dense covering of short pubescence and longer spreading ferruginous rather bristly hairs.

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets 3, often paler beneath, 2.7–9.5(10.5) × 1.1–2.2(3.3) cm, elliptic to narrowly oblong or obovate, rounded and mucronulate or rarely subacute at the apex, ± rounded or cuneate at the base, softly pubescent and glandular on both surfaces or sometimes with dense grey felted indumentum beneath; venation usually impressed above and raised beneath; nerves often reddish beneath; petioles 2.7 mm long; rhachis 4.5–8 mm long; petiolules c. 2 mm long; stipules 6–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm, lanceolate, hairy, veined.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Racemes axillary, the flowering part 1.5–3 × 2.3 cm; peduncle (1)3–16 cm long, with spreading pubescence; pedicels c. 1.5 mm long; bracts eventually falling, 5 × 1 mm, lanceolate, hairy.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx with covering of long and short hairs and glands, 6–8.5 mm long; lobes lanceolate, acute, c. 1–2 times as long as the tube.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard red outside and yellow inside or all yellow, 0.95–1.45 cm × (4.5)5–7.5 mm, obovate-oblong, relatively sparsely hairy in central area only or pubescent all over the outside, glandular; wings yellow; keel cream-coloured.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 1.5–2 × 0.9–1.25 cm, elliptic, covered with long ferruginous hairs, short hairs and glands.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds brown, densely speckled black, 5.5 × 4 × 2 mm, oblong; rim aril cream-coloured.

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Sudanian grasslands, Sudanian woodland, Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; bushland and thicket., Zambezian anthropic landscapes., Zambezian woodland, Zambezian grassland

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Herb

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit

Prostrate, ascending or suberect pyrophytic herb, with several to many unbranched or sparsely branched stems 10–45 cm. long from a woody root-stock.

Morphology Stem

Stems of few to many internodes, with dense covering of short pubescence and longer ferruginous rather bristly hairs.

Morphology Leaves

Leaflets 3, often paler beneath, elliptic to narrowly oblong or obovate, 2·7–9·5 cm. long, 1·1–2·2(–3·3) cm. wide, rounded and mucronulate or rarely subacute at the apex, ± rounded or cuneate at the base, softly pubescent and glandular on both surfaces or sometimes with dense grey felted indumentum beneath; venation usually impressed above and raised beneath; petioles 2·7 mm. long; rhachis 4·5–8 mm. long; petiolules ± 2 mm. long; stipules lanceolate, 6–10 mm. long, 1·5–2·5 mm. wide, hairy, veined.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Racemes axillary, the flowering part 1·5–3 cm. long, 2·3 cm. wide; peduncle (1–)3–16 cm. long, with spreading pubescence; pedicels ± 1·5 mm. long; bracts eventually falling, lanceolate, 5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, hairy.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx with covering of long and short hairs and glands, 6–8·5 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, acute, ± 1–2 times as long as the tube.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard red outside and yellow inside or all yellow, obovate-oblong, 0·95–1·45 cm. long, (4·5–)5–7·5 mm. wide, relatively sparsely hairy in central area only or pubescent all over the outside, glandular; wings yellow; keel cream.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods elliptic, 1·5–2 cm. long, 0·9–1·25 cm. wide, covered with long ferruginous hairs, short hairs and glands.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds brown, densely speckled black, oblong, longest dimension 5·5 mm., shorter dimension 4 mm., 2 mm. thick; rim-aril cream.