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Argyrolobium tomentosum

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Argyrolobium tomentosum (Andrews) Druce [family FABACEAE ]
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Entry for Argyrolobium tomentosum Andrews Druce [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 7, (2003) Author: various authors
Names
Argyrolobium tomentosum Andrews Druce [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 1916: 605 (1917). —Hutchinson, Botanist South. Africa: 455 (1946). —Pole Evans in Bot. Surv. S. Afr. Mem. 22: 268 (1948). —Robyns, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 283 (1948). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 4: 277 (1953). —Compton, Ann. Check List Fl. Swaziland: 47 (1966). —Polhill in Kew Bull. 22: 162, fig. 1/13–22 (1968); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 1007, fig. 138/13–22 (1971). —Ross, Fl. Natal: 199 (1972). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 217 (1972). —Brummitt in Wye Coll. Malawi Proj. Rep.: 64 (1973). —Corby in Kirkia 9: 318 (1974). —Drummond in Kirkia 10: 245 (1975). —Compton, Fl. Swaziland: 257 (1976). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 273 (1989). —Retief & Herman in Strelitzia 6: 441 (1997). TAB. 3,7: 56, fig. C. Type: plate 237 in Andrews, The Botanist's Repository 4(1802), drawn from a plant cultivated in London from seeds collected in South Africa (Cape Province).
Cytisus tomentosus Andrews [family LEGUMINOSAE], Bot. Repos. 4, t. 237 (1802).
Chasmone andrewsiana E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 74 (1836) nom. illegit. Type as for Cytisus tomentosus.
Argyrolobium andrewsianum E. Mey. Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Nom. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 129 (1840). —Bentham in Hooker, London J. Bot. 3: 348 (1844). —Harvey in F.C. 2: 75 (1862) as \"andrewsiana\". —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 372 (1916). —Harms in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 35: 178 (1917). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 64 (1926). —Staner in Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 23: 217 (1933).
Argyrolobium shirense Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 207 (1895). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 68 (1926). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 408 (1949); in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 249 (1953). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 4: 279 (1953). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 56 (1961). Types: Malawi, Shire Highlands, Buchanan 466, 481 and Last s.n. (B†, syntypes; K).
Argyrolobium stuhlmannii Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 207 (1895). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 65 (1926). —Brenan, Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr.: 408 (1949). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 4: 278 (1953). Type from Rwanda/Uganda border.
Argyrolobium angustistipulatum De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Pl. Bequaert. 2: 518 (1924). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 67 (1926). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu).
Information
Erect or scrambling subshrub 70–200 cm tall. Stems up to 7 mm in diameter at the base; branches thinly to densely appressed or spreading fulvous to greyish pubescent, sometimes the hairs grouped, glabrescent. Leaves usually well spaced; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, acute to subacute and apiculate at apex, cuneate at base, usually very sparsely pilose above, more densely so beneath; terminal leaflets mostly 2–3 times as long as the petiole, 20–70 × 9–35 mm; petiole 9–40 mm long; stipules 3–7 × 0.2–1 mm, filiform or linear-lanceolate, free, subglabrous to pilose, persistent or somewhat caducous. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, pedunculate, racemose, sometimes long and lax, sometimes contracted and subumbelliform, usually 8–32-flowered; peduncle 2–10 cm long; bracts 2–4 mm long, linear-oblanceolate. Calyx 9–12 mm long, sometimes reddish, sparsely pubescent or pilose; the upper lip 2-lobed to below the middle with the lobes oblong-lanceolate. Corolla yellow, turning orange or reddish with age; standard 11–13 × 10–14 mm, circular to oblate, sparsely to densely pubescent outside; wings as long as the standard, broad, glabrous or sometimes with some hairs along the midline or to the apex, without any folds between the veins; keel shorter than the wings, the petals 7–9 mm long, without or sometimes with a prominent crest, ciliolate on the upper margin near base. Pod 35–60 × 5–6 mm, oblong, slightly curved, narrowed to the extremity, fulvous appressed pubescent or strigose. Seeds 12–18 per pod, 3–3.5 mm long, dark brown, smooth.
Habitat
Brachystegia woodland on rocky slopes, gully forest and evergreen forest margins, swamp forest margins, in moist grassland on river and dambo margins, rarely growing in water
Altitude range
600–1800 m.
1800
600
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, abaixo das quedas, margem esquerda do R. Impamputo, fl. & fr. 20.vii.1967, Marques 2068 (LMU).Mozambique MS Barué Distr., Serra de Chôa, 12 km de Catandica (Vila Gouveia) para Chôa, 1300 m, fl. & fr. 26.v.1971, Torre & Correia 18667 (K; LISC; LMU; PRE).Mozambique T Angónia Distr., Monte Domué, 1500 m, fl. 8.vi.1980, Stefanesco & Nyongani 551 (LISC; SRGH).Mozambique Z Gurué, próximo do Pico Namuli, 1500 m, fl. & fr. 29.vi.1943, Torre 5603 (BM; LISC).Malawi S Blantyre Distr., Ndirande Mt., rocky slopes with Brachystegia cover, 1430–1520 m, fl. 2.v.1970, Brummitt 10314 (K; LISC; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., Dedza Mt., 1800 m, fl. 5.iv.1978, Pawek 14291 (K; MAL).Zambia E Nyika Plateau, fr. 24.viii.1962, Verboom 664 (K; LISC).Zambia W Kitwe, fl. & fr. 18.viii.1967, Mutimushi 2017 (K; LISC).Mozambique N Lichinga (Vila Cabral), fl. 8.vi.1934, Torre 262 (K; LISC); Ribáuè Distr., south face of Ribáuè Mt., 975 m, fl. 19.vii.1962, Leach & Schelpe 11413 (K; SRGH).Malawi N Mzimba Distr., Perekezi Forest Reserve, 30 km from Mzimba, margin of dambo, 1510 m, fl. & fr. 6.vii.1970, Brummitt 11827 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Cashel road, c. 10 km east of Chimanimani (Melsetter Village), 1500 m, fl. & fr. 21.ix.1960, Rutherford-Smith 151 (LMU; SRGH).Zambia N Mbala Distr., track in Itimbwe (Itembwe) Gorge, 1520 m, fl. & fr. 24.iv.1959, McCallum-Webster 912 (K; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
north-eastern Dem. Rep. Congo
Uganda
southwards to southern Tanzania
South Africa (Eastern Cape Province)

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