Fabaceae
Eriosema

Eriosema schweinfurthii Baker f.

First published in J. Bot. 33: 231 (1895)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central African Republic to Uganda. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb with single erect unbranched stem ± 15 cm. tall from a woody tuberous rootstock 4·5 cm. long and 1·5 cm. wide.
Morphology Stem
Stems angular,somewhat zigzag, with adpressed greyish hairs above, glabrescent below.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves unifoliolate; leaflets paler beneath, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 3·5–19 cm. long, 0·6–1·7 cm. wide, acute to rather rounded but mucronulate at the apex, narrowly rounded at the base, glabrous above, densely covered with silvery-grey adpressed hairs beneath; venation raised on both surfaces; petiole ±2 mm. long; petiolule ±1 mm. long; stipules 1·6–2·2 cm. long, 1·5–2·5 mm. wide, hairy, veined, leaf-opposed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes terminal and axillary; rhachis ±2 cm. long; peduncle ± 1 cm. long, hairy; bracts sub-persistent, lanceolate, 1 cm. long, 1·5 mm. wide, hairy, veined.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx covered with long tangled hairs, 4–6 mm. long; lobes triangular, acuminate, longer than the tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard linear-oblong, spathulate, 1·2 cm-long, 3–4 mm. wide, with rather sparse adpressed grey hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods oval-oblong, 1 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, covered with long silvery or ferruginous hairs 2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds not seen.
Habitat
Unknown
Distribution
U1
[FTEA]

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]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • 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