Fabaceae
Wajira

Wajira albescens Thulin

First published in Nordic J. Bot. 2: 475 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Ethiopia to E. Kenya. It is a climbing 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: not threatened. Confidence: low confidence
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
Woody climber up to 5 m or more long, the lower part of the stem with conspicuous corky ridges; young stems sparsely appressed pubescent with retrorse hairs
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets ovate or rhombic, 10–37 x 6–24 mm, sparsely appressed pubescent and with raised reticulate venation on both surfaces
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences from old wood or sometimes in leaf axils, the axis up to 2 cm long including up to 1 cm long peduncle, with densely clustered flowers
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx pubescent; tube c. 3 mm long; lower lobe up to 5 mm long; upper lobes forming a broadly rounded or emarginate lip ending in an acute spur-like appendage
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla white tinged with pink; standard asymmetrical, c. 16 x 20 mm, with a yellow patch at base inside; wings adnate to the keel; keel with the beak spirally incurved for almost 2 full turns
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
Style with rigid upper part dorsiventrally flattened and with mostly branched hairs on the inside of the upper half
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 90–110 x 6–7 mm, upcurved at the apex or slightly S-shaped, appressed pubescent, up to c. 12-seeded
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds with hilum c. 0.8 mm long.
[FSOM]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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/

  • 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