Podalyria orbicularis(E. Mey.) Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schutte, A.L., Podalyria orbicularis(E. Mey.) Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by Schelpe, S.,
Related name
Crotalaria orbicularis
Podalyria reticulata
Podalyria orbicularis
Flora
Entry for PODALYRIA orbicularis E. Mey. [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
PODALYRIA orbicularisE. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Com. p. 8, non E. & Z.;—Benth. l. c. p. 436. E. & Z. No. 1159!
Information
leaves (becoming) glabrous and shining above, densely ferrugineo-villous beneath, veinless, orbicular, with revolute margins, very obtuse or mucronulate; peduncles 1–2 fl., as long as the leaves or longer; calyces rufo-hirsute, the lateral segments much shorter than the keel. The subrotund leaves are 3/4–1 inch long, and nearly as wide; the young ones thinly sprinkled with hairs, the older glabrous and shining, the under surface densely shaggy with dark, reddish-brown hairs. When dry the upper surfaces of the leaves are frequently reticulated, from a shrinking of the parenchyma.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Stony mountain sides near Caledon, E. & Z.! Gnadendahl, Drege! Bavians' Kloof, Krauss. (Herb. Bth. Sd.)