Zornia setosa Baker f.

First published in Legum. Trop. Africa: 324 (1929)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Ethiopia to Namibia. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Prostrate or erect perennial herb with pubescent stems 3–50 cm long or tall.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves (2–3)4-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, the terminal pair usually the largest, and leaflets of lower leaves often larger than those of the upper leaves, 5–26 × 2–18 mm, obtuse, rounded (rarely acute) and ± mucronulate at the apex, cuneate at the base, densely glandular-punctate, glabrous or pubescent on both surfaces, mostly ciliate when young; petiole 2–16 mm long; petiolules 0.5–1 mm long; stipules 4–9 mm long including the 0.5–2.5 mm long spur, 2–3 mm wide, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, glabrous or pubescent, densely glandular-punctate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences 2–9 cm long; peduncle 7–35 mm long; bracts 5–10 × 2.5–4.5 mm, elliptic-obovate or elliptic, acute, punctate like the stipules, pubescent or glabrescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous save for base of lowest lobe; tube 2–2.5 mm long, lobes 1–2 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard yellow, orange or pink to purple, mostly flushed or veined with darker colour, 7–9 × 7–8 mm; keel green.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits 10–18 mm long, of 3–7 articles; each article 2–3 × 2–2.5 mm, puberulous or glabrous, glandular or not, covered with plumose or glabrous bristles 0.5–4 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds dark purple-brown, 1.8 × 1.4 × 0.8 mm, rounded reniform, slightly beaked beyond the small eccentric hilum.
[FZ]

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

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb with prostrate stems radiating from a woody vertical root, up to 64 cm. long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves 4-foliolate, very variable in size; terminal leaflets of upper leaves obovate, rarely oblanceolate, up to 21 × 11(30 × 14) mm., often very much smaller, rounded at the apex, glabrous or with a few hairs on the midrib and margin, glandular-punctate beneath; lateral leaflets smaller; leaflets of lower leaves similar to the upper but slightly larger.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 9 mm. long but often much shorter.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
Bracts obovate-elliptic, scarcely acute, usually longer than the internodes, beset with conspicuous glands, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers longer than the bracts.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx ± 3.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals yellow, pink, blood-red or mauve, variously marked with deeper colours; standard up to 9 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Legume up to 20 mm. long and 8-seeded; segments 2.5 × 2.5 mm., variously clothed.
[FTEA]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland, Somalia-Masai grasslands, Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands, Zambezian anthropic landscapes., Somalia-Masai anthropic landscapes, Lake Victoria regional mosaic; anthropic landscapes.
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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