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Eriosema cordatum
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Photo: Sune Holt
God's Window, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Photo: Sune Holt
God's Window, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Prostrate, ascending or rarely erect perennial herb, with densely hairy stems up to c. 50 cm long, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves 1–3-foliolate, the lower ones often mostly 1-foliolate but sometimes all 3-foliolate; leaflets 4–13 cm long, terminal one elliptic to round ovate or lanceolate, the laterals more obliquely oblong-elliptic, rounded to more or less distinctly cordate at the base, sparsely hairy above, more densely so beneath, sometimes discolorous; petiole mostly up to 7 mm long, rarely longer; rhachis 1–2.3 mm long; stipules lanceolate, up to 23 mm long, densely hairy. Inflorescences mostly 2–5.5 cm long; peduncle 3–20 cm long, hairy as on stems; pedicels 1 mm long. Flowers deflexed; calyx pilose, tube 3.5–5 mm long, lobes triangular to triangular-lanceolate, 3-7.5 mm long. Corolla yellow and brown or red with tip of the keel very densely gland-dotted. Pods oblong-elliptic, c. 1.7 cm long, turning blackish. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | cordatum: cordate or heart-shaped, referring to the base of the leaflets. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. |
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Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Page 222. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 48. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Eriosema cordatum
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