Rhynchosia goetzei Harms

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Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Zambezian woodland, Zambezian grassland

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Herb/Shrub

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

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

Morphology General Habit

Mostly erect or sometimes scrambling subshrub with tips twining, 0.6–2 m tall, or much less often a distinct climber.

Morphology Stem

Stems much branched, woody, reddish-brown, densely puberulous or pubescent when young, later glabrescent and fissured.

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets 3, paler beneath, 1.5–4.8(8) × 1.3–4.5(8) cm, oblate-rhombic to ovate, the laterals oblique, rounded to usually acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, densely to sparsely puberulous above, pubescent on the nerves to entirely velvety beneath, gland-dotted on both surfaces; venation usually finely reticulate; petiole 0.8–6 cm long; rhachis 3–25 mm long; petiolules 1.5–3 mm long; stipules 2 × 0.5 mm, triangular, pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences axillary and terminal, sometimes several in one axil or branched, the apical ones paniculate; rhachis 3–9 cm long; peduncle 5–15 mm long; pedicels 5–7 mm long; bracts persistent, 2.5–4.5 × 1.5–3 mm, ovate, pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx pubescent, glandular; tube 3 mm long; lobes triangular or lanceolate, often with grey hairs along the margins and midribs, the lowest the longest, 5.5–6 × 2 mm, the rest 3–4 × 1.5 mm, the upper pair entirely fused to form a triangular lobe or only free at the extreme apex.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Standard yellow, veined with reddish-brown, 12–14 × 10–12 mm, broadly obovate, glabrous; wings yellow; keel cream-coloured with a greyish or purple tip.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pod straw-coloured, veined with green, 2–3 cm × 6–8 mm, oblong-falcate, acute at both ends, densely shortly puberulous and glandular (often ± glabrous in Dem. Rep. Congo).

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds dark reddish-brown, 3.5 × 2.5 mm, oblong-reniform.