Fabaceae
Lotononis

Lotononis serpentinicola Wild

First published in Kirkia 5: 75 (1965)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zimbabwe. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical 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: threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland, Zambezian wooded grassland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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 prostrate to ascending branches from the top of an undivided taproot; branches up to 10–50 cm long, densely silvery strigose-pubescent with slightly biramous hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 8–25 × 2.5–8 mm, mostly narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, lower ones more obovate, pointed to rounded to a slightly mucronate tip, strigose-pubescent on both surfaces; petioles shorter than the leaflets; stipules single at a node, resembling a small leaflet.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 1–2, leaf-opposed, with a short rhachis when paired; peduncle 8–20 mm long, filiform; bracts 1–2 mm long, linear; pedicel 3–3.5 mm long; bracteoles absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–5 mm long, densely strigulose-pubescent; upper and lateral lobes joined to ± same level, 2.4–3 mm long, narrowly and acuminately triangular.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard bright yellow inside, paler and lined red outside, as long as the keel, elliptic-ovate above a well developed basally dilated claw, pubescent along the midvein outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 5–7 mm long, oblong-falcate with a small purplish beak, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 10–12 × 3–3.5 mm, narrowly oblong, a little tapered to the apex, strigulose-pubescent, 16–20-seeded.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds c. 2 mm across, rounded, only slightly oblique-cordiform, matt, brown.
[FZ]

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

  • 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