Dolichos axillarisE.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Macrotyloma axillare(E. Mey.) Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Dolichos axillaris
Macrotyloma axillare
Clitoria viridiflora
Macrotyloma uniflorum
Flora
Entry for DOLICHOS axillaris 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
DOLICHOS axillarisE. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Comm. p. 144
Information
suffruticose at base, voluble, pubescent or glabrescent; leaflets membranous, elliptic-ovate, subacute; peduncles shorter than the petiole, 1–3-flowered; calyx-lobes deltoid-cuspidate; legumes straightish, broadly linear, 6–8-seeded. Climbing among shrubs, 2 or several feet long. Petioles 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long. Leaflets 1–1 1/2 inch long, 1/2– 3/4 inch wide, thin, pale-green, not prominently veiny. Peduncles 3–6 lines long. Flowers greenish-yellow, 6 lines long. Vexillum oblong, incumbent, scarcely equalling the boatshaped, obtuse, scarcely falcate carina. Style slender, subulate, equally pubescent. Legume 2 inches long, 3 lines wide. The glabrous variety is very like D. biflorus, of Schimper's Abyssinian plants.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between Omtendo and Omsamculo, and at Natal, both varieties, Drege! Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd.)
