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Eriosema glomeratum

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Name

Identification
Eriosema glomeratum (Guill. & Perr.) Hook.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Rhynchosia glomeratum Guill. & Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
Related name
  • Glycine rufa
  • Eriosema parviflorum
  • Eriosema glomerata
  • Rhynchosia glomerata
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  • Eriosema glomeratum
  • Eriosema velutinum
  • Eriosema vanderystii
  • Glycine not on sheet
  • Eriosema elongatum
  • Rhynchosia glomeratum
  • Eriosema laurentii
Common name
  • ôtu (Baptista in D’Orey & Liberato) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • (Guinea-Bissau) acobogel (Baptista in D’Orey & Liberato) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for ERIOSEMA glomeratum Hook. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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
ERIOSEMA glomeratum Hook. f. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Nigr. 313.
Glycine rufa Schum. et Thonn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Pl. Guin. 344, non H. B. K.
Rhynchosia glomerata Guill. et Perr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Seneg. 216.
ERIOSEMA rufum Baill. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Adans. vi. 226, non E. Meyer.
ERIOSEMA gracile Klotzsch [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 35.
Information
An erect copiously branched shrub, 5–6 ft. high, with slender woody branches more or less densely clothed with spreading ferruginous pubescence. Stipules lanceolate, scarious, 1/4 in. long. Leaves subsessile; leaflets 3, the central one oblong-lanceolate, 2–3 in. long, narrowed to both ends; petiolule 1/8 in. long; lateral ones erecto-patent, slightly unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely downy when young, lower finely grey-downy all over, the raised veins ferruginous. Flowers crowded in dense nearly sessile axillary heads an inch or less broad and long. Bracts linear, 1/4 in. long. Pedicel a line long. Calyx 1/4 in. deep, densely silky, the teeth linear-setaceous, densely ciliated, reaching half down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx. Pod broad-oblong, 1/2 in. long, 1/4 in. broad, densely clothed with long silky hairs.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Capt. Burton!Lower Guinea Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Dr. Peters!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Smeathmann!Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot! Perrottet!Guinea proper Upper Guinea Thonning, Vogel! Barter! Mann! Griffon du Balloy Brass! Duparquet.

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