Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.

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

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit

Perennial or annual climbing herb up to 0.6 m long; stems pilose

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets ovate-rhomboid, obovate or elliptic, 1–3.5 x 0.7–2.7 cm, rounded or subacute at the tip, glabrescent to pubescent

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Flowers in axillary (1–)2–3(–5)-flowered clusters

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx-tube 2 mm long; lobes narrow, 3–8 mm long

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard 0.6–1.2 cm long

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pod 30–55 x 4–8 mm, upcurved towards the apex, pods pilose with an understorey of very fine hairs, or glabrous.

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

Morphology General Habit

Perennial or annual climbing herb up to 0·6 m. long, often from a tough rootstock, possibly sometimes suberect.

Morphology Stem

Stems sparsely to fairly densely covered with ± spreading soft whitish hairs.

Morphology Leaves

Leaflets 3, ovate-rhomboid, obovate or elliptic, the laterals oblique, 1–3·5(–8 in Indian material) cm. long, 0·7–2·7(–7·8 in Indian material) cm. wide, rounded or subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, rather thin, glabrescent to pubescent or rarely velvety on both surfaces; petiole 0·8–6·8 cm. long; rhachis 2·5–10 mm. long; petiolules 1–2 mm. long; stipules lanceolate, 4–8 mm. long, veined.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers axillary in (1–)2–3 (–5)-flowered fascicles; peduncle and rhachis 0–1·5 cm. long; pedicels 1–7 mm. long; bracts linear, ± 2 mm. long; bracteoles linear, ± 3 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx pubescent; tube 2 mm. long; lobes triangular-lanceolate, 3–8 mm. long, attenuate to an acuminate or filiform apex, upper pair entirely joined.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard cream, yellow or greenish-yellow, often with a small central purple blotch inside, obovate-oblong, 0·6–1·2 cm. long, 4–7 mm. wide; wings and keel greenish-yellow.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods linear-oblong, 3–5·5 cm. long, 4–8 mm. wide, acuminate, at first densely, later more sparsely silky pilose with long hairs or glabrous, smooth or warty along the margins.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds pale to dark reddish-brown, speckled and mottled with black and orange-brown or all black, trapezoidal, oblong or rounded-reniform; margins ± keeled, longest dimension 3–4·2 mm., shorter dimension 2·8–3·5 mm., thickness 1·5–2 mm.; hilum and rim-aril minute.

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket, Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transition zone; grassland., Zanzibar-Inhambane regional transitional zone; wooded grassland, Zambezian woodland

Morphology General Habit

Annual/Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Herb

Vernacular

Horse Gram, Kollu, Kulthi, Madras Gram

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

Morphology General Habit

Climbing (possibly sometimes suberect) herb up to 60 cm long, from a perennial fibrous rootstock.

Morphology Stem

Stems annual, sparsely to densely spreading or appressed sericeous.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 1–3.5 × 0.7–2.7 cm, ovate-rhombic, obovate or elliptic, rounded or subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, rather thin, laterals oblique, midvein not central, glabrescent to pubescent or rarely velvety on both surfaces; petiole 0.8–6.8 cm long; rhachis 2.5–10 mm long; petiolules 1–2 mm long; stipules 4–8 mm long, lanceolate, striate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers axillary, in pairs or in 3(5)-flowered fascicles, rarely solitary; peduncle and rhachis 0–15 mm long; pedicels 1–7 mm long; bracts 2 mm long, linear; bracteoles 3 mm long, linear, attenuate to an acuminate or filiform apex.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx pubescent; tube 3 mm long; lobes 3 mm long, linear, upper pair completely fused.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard cream, yellow or greenish-yellow, often with a small central purple blotch inside, 6–12 × 4–7 mm, obovate-oblong; wings and keel greenish-yellow, 5–10 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 30–55 × 4–8 mm, linear-oblong, acuminate, densely pilose when young, later more sparsely so, glabrous, smooth or warty along the margins, 7–10-seeded.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds pale to dark reddish-brown, speckled and mottled with black and orange-brown or all black, 3–4 × 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm, trapezoidal, oblong or rounded-reniform, margins keeled; hilum and rim aril minute.