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Argyrolobium tuberosum

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Name

Identification
Argyrolobium tuberosum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ARGYROLOBIUM tuberosum E. & Z. [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
ARGYROLOBIUM tuberosum E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1322;—Benth. l. c. p. 341.
Chasmone tuberosa Meisn [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Zeyher, No. 384.
ARGYROLOBIUM angustifolium E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1321.
Information
glabrescent or minutely silky; stem erect, slender, slightly branched, 3-cornered near the top; stipules lanceolate-setaceous, much shorter than the petiole (or rarely longer); leaflets linear-lanceolate, the lowest ones sometimes obovate-cuneate; racemes pedunculate, laxly few-flowered; the lips of the silky calyx about equal, the lower 3-toothed, the teeth acuminate; legume minutely appressedly puberulous, at length glabrescent. Root tuberous. Stems 2–3 feet high, very slender, straggling, often simple. Petioles 1–2, or sometimes 3 inches long; those of the upper leaves much shorter, leaflets 1–2 inches long, 1–2 lines wide. The pubescence is always scanty and very closely appressed, the hairs scarcely visible but with a pocket lens. Flowers pubescent, dark yellow, turning brown in drying. Pods 2 inches long, straight or slightly curved, 1 line wide. Allied to A. filiforme, No. 19.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Krakakamma and Winterberg, E. & Z.! Howison's Poort, Mr. Hutton! Magaliesberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. D., Bth., Hk., Sd.)

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