Fabaceae
Lotononis

Lotononis brachyantha Harms

First published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 360 (1920)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Africa. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Descriptions

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]

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

Morphology General Habit
Annual or short-lived perennial, with a short stem, soon developing numerous slender radiating procumbent to prostrate branches from the top of an undivided taproot; branches up to 10–30 cm long, densely strigose-pubescent with silvery appressed slightly biramous hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 4–20 × 1.5–8 mm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, ± bluntly pointed, densely strigose-pubescent on both surfaces; petiole mostly shorter than the leaflets, but long on initial stem and luxuriant growth; stipules single at a node, 2–8 mm long, narrowly and obliquely linear-elliptic.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 1(2), leaf-opposed at the nodes, with a short peduncle when paired; bracts 2–3 mm long, linear, slightly exceeding the pedicel; bracteoles absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 5–6 mm long, densely strigose-pubescent; upper and lateral lobes joined at ± the same level, c. 3 mm long, triangular-subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, shorter than the keel and scarcely exceeding the calyx, trullate above a well developed basally dilated claw, medially pubescent outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel c. 6 mm long, narrow, with a short upwardly directed purplish beak, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods c. 5 × 2 mm, almost oblong, slightly widened medially, somewhat turgid, with a distinct rib along the upper suture, finely pubescent, c. 6-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 1 mm long, oblique-cordiform, minutely roughened, brown.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
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

  • 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