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Glycine caribaea

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Type of Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Glycine caribaea [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Filed as Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Glycine caribaea [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Syntype of Glycine sublobata Schumach. and Thonn. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Rhynchosia caribaea (Jacq.) DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Filed as Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Syntype of Glycine sublobata Schumach. and Thonn. [family FABACEAE]
Rhynchosia caribaea (Jacq.) DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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Identification
Rhynchosia caribaea (Jacq.) DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Rhynchosia gibba unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Glycine caribaea
  • Rhynchosia sp.
  • Rhynchosia caribaea
  • Rhynchosia gibba

Flora

Entry for Rhynchosia caribaea Jacq. DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Names
Rhynchosia caribaea Jacq. DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Prodr. 2: 384 (1825). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 474 (1929) pro parte. —Meikle in Kew Bull. 6: 173, fig. 1 (1951). —Mogg in Macnae & Kalk, Nat. Hist. Inhaca Isl., Moçamb., ed. 2, rev.: 146 (1969). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 225 (1972). —Gonçalves in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Bot. 5: 106 (1982). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 426 (1989). Type a specimen grown in Vienna, erroneously believed to be from seed from the Caribbean but clearly from South Africa*.
Glycine caribaea Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Collect. 1: 66 (1787); Icon. Pl. Rar. 1: t. 146 (1787).
Rhynchosia gibba E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Linnaea 7: 170 (1830). —Harvey in F.C. 2: 255 (1862). Type from South Africa.
Rhynchosia acuminata Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Enum. Pl. Afr.: 253 (1836). Type from South Africa.
Copisma gibbum E. Mey. E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 137 (1836).
Rhynchosia flavissima [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu E.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 40: 59 (1911), non Hochst. ex Baker.
Rhynchosia gazensis Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 475 (1929). Lectotype (given by Meikle as “type” in 1951): Zimbabwe, Gazaland, Chirinda, Swynnerton 448 (BM, lectotype).
Information
Perennial twiner with slender wiry sparsely to densely pubescent stems 2–4 m long. Leaflets 3, 1.2–7 × 1–6.7 cm, terminal broadly rhombic or triangular, gradually narrowed to an obtuse or subacute apex, laterals obliquely rhombic-ovate with lower margin distinctly gibbous, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, pubescent on the nerves and veins beneath and with numerous golden gland dots (densely velvety in a South African variety); petiole 1.2–4.2 cm long; rhachis 0.7–2.2 cm long; stipules 4–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, slender, lax, 4–15.5 cm long, unbranched or often with a patent secondary branchlet a short distance below the base of the main rhachis, rarely with many branches; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Calyx puberulous; tube 3–4 mm long; lobes unequal, ± obtuse to narrowly acuminate, the upper pair joined almost to the apex to form a lobe 1.5–4 mm long; lateral lobes 1.5–5 mm long, broadly triangular, lowest lobe 3–8 mm long, narrowly triangular to linear. Corolla yellow with purple veining; standard 10–17 × 12–14 mm, obovate, glabrous; wings yellow; keel green often with a dark tip. Pods 2–4 × 0.8 cm, falcate, not inflated, finely pubescent and with sparse to dense long silky glandular-based hairs sometimes breaking off to leave small tubercles. Seeds dark reddish-brown with darker markings, 4.5 × 4 × 1.5 mm, rounded reniform, compressed.

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