Adenocarpus mannii (Hook.f.) Hook.f.

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Chelinda road, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Adenocarpus benguellensis Welw. ex Baker Cytisus mannii Hook. f.
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Description:	Erect shrub up to 4.5 m high or sometimes a low-growing suffrutex. Stems much branched, more or less densely hairy; bark flaking in older stems and branches. Leaves usually densely arranged on short shoots, more spaced along the young branches, 3-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate, up to 12 mm long but often shorter, usually densely silvery hairy beneath, sparsely so above; margins often incurved; petiole shorter than the leaflets; stipules small. Inflorescences terminal, few-flowered, contracted. Calyx silky-hairy; upper lip c. 6 mm long, deeply 2-lobed; lower lip longer than upper, deeply 3-lobed narrower lobes. Corolla yellow. Pod narrowly oblong, up to 24 mm long, straight with a short downward pointing beak, sparsely hairy, rough with glandular tubercles.
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Derivation of specific name:	mannii: after Gustav Mann (1836-1916), British colonial representative in the Gulf of Guinea, who collected plants in that area.
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Worldwide distribution:	Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia 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 151. (Includes a picture). Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 263 - 264. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 56. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 95. White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Page 138. White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 322.

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