Fabaceae
Wajira

Wajira danissana Thulin & Lavin

First published in Syst. Bot. 29: 910 (2004)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Ethiopia to NE. Kenya. It is a climbing shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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

Morphology General Habit
Woody climber, up to 1.5 m or more long; young stems sparsely appressed pubescent with retrorse hairs
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets ± broadly ovate, 15–42 x 10–28 mm, sparsely appressed pubescent and with raised reticulate venation on both surfaces
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences in leaf-axils or sometimes from old wood, the axis 15–28 cm long including up to 20 cm long peduncle
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous; tube 2–2.8 mm long; lobes 1.2–2 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard violet blue to dark blue with outside dull greenish purple, c. 10–11 x 12–13 mm; keel with beak incurved through 270–300º
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 10–11-ovulate; style with rigid curved upper part dorsiventrally flattened and with unbranched hairs on the inside of the upper 3–4 mm
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod c. 65–85 x 4–5 mm, nearly straight to slightly upcurved towards the apex, glabrous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds with hilum c. 0.8 mm long.
[FSOM]

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: low confidence
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • 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/

  • 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