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Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. pumilum original illustration from Flora Zambesiaca
Grierson, Mary
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Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. pumilum [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Holotype of Eriosema pumilum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P., #8502
23-01-1956
Specimens
Tanzania
Eriosema occultiflorum J.B.Gillett [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Holotype of Eriosema pumilum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Holotype of Eriosema pumilum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. lanceolatum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P., #9563
10-04-1956
Specimens
Tanzania
Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. lanceolatum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Holotype of Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. lanceolatum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P., #9563
10-04-1956
Specimens
Tanzania
Holotype of Eriosema pumilum Verdc. var. lanceolatum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B.,
Eriosema pumilum var. lanceolatum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Leaflets elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, at least the upper ones narrow.
Eriosema pumilum var. pumilum [family LEGUMINOSAE]
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Leaflets obovate, obtriangular or obcordate, rarely elliptic.
Eriosema pumilum Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Erect or decumbent perennial herb with 1–several usually unbranched stems, 3–15 cm tall from a small round or turnip-shaped tuber 1–2.5 × 0.5–2.2 cm. Stems leafy, somewhat zigzag, slender, pubescent with appressed or spreading white hairs. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflet 0.7–5.2 × 0.2–1.7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic-oblong, obovate or even obtriangular or obcordate, acute to emarginate and also mucronulate at the apex, cuneate or narrowly rounded at the base, glabrous to very sparsely hairy on both surfaces and margins, densely glandular-punctate beneath; venation raised above; petiole obsolete or scarcely 1 mm long, often bristly pubescent; petiolule 1–2 mm long; stipules 2–3.5 × 0.5 mm, lanceolate or triangular. Inflorescences axillary, mostly hidden amongst the leaves, 1–2-flowered; peduncle 2–9 mm long, pubescent; rhachis 1–2 mm long; pedicels 0.5–2 mm long; bracts minute. Calyx pubescent and densely glandular, 2–2.5 mm long; lobes equal, ovate or narrowly triangular, ± equalling the tube in length. Standard yellow, 5–5.5 × 2.5–3.8 mm, obtriangular or obovate, emarginate, with scattered hairs and numerous greenish-yellow glands; wings deep yellow; keel greenish. Pods 6.5–8 × 5–5.5 mm, ovate- or elliptic-oblong, puberulous and with longer brown hairs c. 0.8 mm long. Seeds brown or grey-brown with dark speckling, 2.5 × 2 × 1 mm, reniform; rim aril orange.
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