Humularia pseudaeschynomene Verdc.

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Conservation

Insufficiently known

Ecology

Africa: Zambezian grassland

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Herb

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

Morphology General Habit

Rhizomatous suffrutex with creeping stems 15–40 cm long which are burnt back every year, glabrous or densely covered with rather short tubercular-based glandular hairs.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves (2)4–6-foliolate, glaucous; leaflets 12–27 × 7–18 mm, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, rounded to truncate and slightly mucronulate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, the apical ones obliquely so, glabrous but sometimes with small yellow dots of resinous secretion which are readily detachable and perhaps not normal, entire; main nerve central or slightly eccentric but with 3–4 nerves to one side and only one on the other; venation distinctly raised and reticulate; petiole 5–10 mm long, glabrous or hairy with similar indumentum to that on the stems; petiolules c. 1 mm long; rhachis 7–14 mm long; stipules 5–9 × 3–6 mm, oblong-elliptic to obovate, obtuse at the apex, variable at the base on the same shoot, either completely unappendaged or with 2 distinct basal symmetrical appendages or only 1, mostly c. 2 mm long, glabrous, veined, entire.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences rather more loosely strobilate than in most species, 1.5–3 cm long, axillary or sometimes borne on axillary branches on which leaves are very reduced or represented only by stipules; peduncles 8–35 mm long, glabrous or hairy; pedicels 1.5 mm long; bracts divided completely to the base, lobes 5–8 × 4.5–7 mm, round or broadly elliptic, rounded at both ends, glabrous, entire with venation prominently reticulate; bracteoles not seen, ?early deciduous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx lobes glabrous, 5.5 × 2.5 mm, elliptic, the upper entire, the lower distinctly 3-fid.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard yellow, 7 × 4.5 mm, panduriform, emarginate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary glabrous, 2-ovuled.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit not seen.