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Galactia tenuiflora

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Name

Identification
Galactia tenuiflora (Klein ex Willd.) Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE ]
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Entry for GALACTIA tenuiflora Wight & Arn. [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
GALACTIA tenuiflora Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Prod. 1, p. 206
GALACTIA tenuiflora W. & A. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], l. c.
GALACTIA villosa W. & A. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], l. c.
Copisma subsericeum Sond. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! in Linn. Vol. 23, p. 34.
Information
voluble, variably pubescent; leaflets from oval to lanceolato-oblong, glabrous and shining above, paler and pubescent beneath; peduncles equalling or exceeding the leaves, 2–4-flowered near the summit; calyx silky (or glabrescent) with linear-falcate segments. Our specimens exactly agree with the “ G. villosa ,” W. & A., a hairy form that gradually passes into the subglabrous G. tenuiflora of the same authors. Stem 2–3 feet high, slender. Petioles 1–2 inches long. Stipules lanceolate, 3 lines long. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 inches long, 8–10 lines wide, more or less ovate or subcordate at base. Calyx-lobes 3 lines long, 1/2 line wide. Corolla yellow, twice as long. Ovary silky. Legume 2 inches long, strongly compressed, slightly curved, 7–8 seeded.
Range
A common coast plant in tropical Asia and Australia.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.)

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