Lotononis decumbens(Thunb.) B.E.van Wyk [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Van Wyk, B.-E., Lotononis humifusaBurch. ex Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
Lotononis humifusa
Lotononis decumbens
Flora
Entry for LOTONONIS humifusa Burch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
LOTONONIS humifusaBurch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Cat. 3927;—Benth. l. c. p. 609.
Lipozygis humifusaE. Mey. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 77.
Information
branches slender, prostrate, pubescent; stipules solitary, small, oblong or subulate; leaflets obovate or obcordate, longer or shorter than the petiole, glabrous above, thinly puberulous beneath; flowers shortly pedunculate, opposite the leaves; calyx tubular, thinly and appressedly pubescent, its segments shorter than the tube; the obovate, acute vexillum and the obtuse carina minutely puberulous (or sub-glabrous). A very small plant. Stems 2–3 inches long, depressed, branching. Leaflets 3–4 lines long, 1–2 lines wide, nearly glabrous. Peduncles equalling the petioles or a little longer. β. is larger in all its parts, with somewhat longer petioles and peduncles, but is otherwise so similar, that I hesitate to keep it apart.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA S. Africa, Burchell. Foot of the Witberg, near Shiloh, Drege! β., Nieuwe Hantam, Drege! (Herb. Sond.)