Eriosema montanum Baker f.

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John Meikle Forestry Reserve, Stapleford.

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Description:	Perennial shrubby herb, up to 2 m tall. Branches pubescent to densely shaggy with rusty hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, obovate-elliptic or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2–13 cm long, usually pointed at the apex, softly velvety and with orange glands on both surfaces; venation sometimes raised beneath; petiole 1–3.4.5 cm long; petiolules 1–4 mm long; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 2.5 cm long, hairy outside. Racemes with flowering part 2–7 cm long; peduncle (0.5)4–18(21) cm long, ferruginous hairy; pedicels c. 1–1.5 mm long; bracts soon falling, 0.7–1.4 cm long, linear, pilose. Calyx pubescent with appressed or spreading hairs, 4.5–5.5 mm long; lobes triangular, shorter than or about equalling the tube. Standard yellow, flushed or veined with red or purple-brown, obovate, 6.5–13 mm long, with orange-yellow glands; wings yellow; keel greenish-yellow or white sometimes tipped with brown, glandular. Pods elliptic to oblong, 1–1.7 cm long, covered with long ferruginous hairs and also an undercover of fine pubescence and glands.
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Derivation of specific name:	montanum: of mountainous areas (montane)
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Worldwide distribution:	From Nigeria to Ethiopia, DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia Zimbabwe and Angola.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 159. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. As Eriosema montanum montanum Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 68. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 28. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 225 - 226. 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. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 60. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 99. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 94.

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