Entry for HELMINTHOCARPUM abyssinicum A. Rich. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
HELMINTHOCARPUM abyssinicumA. Rich. [family ], Fl. Abyss. i. 200, t. 86.
Antopetitia cancellataHochst. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 1108.
Information
Stems herbaceous, wiry, slender, copiously branched from the base, 6–12 in. long, diffuse, thinly clothed with close silky pubescence. Leaves subsessile, pinnate, with a terminal leaflet and three on each side, all subsessile, oblanceolate, 1/4– 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 line broad, entire, mucronate, finely silky. Flowers in short-stalked heads from the axils of most of the leaves, 4–6 together. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, which is tubular, silky, 1 line long, the teeth deltoid. Corolla between yellow and red, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 2 lines across, the point nearly or quite brought round to the base.
