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Lebeckia cytisoides

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Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb.
Filed as Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb.
Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE/FABACEAE]
Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb.
Syntype of Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb. [family FABACEAE]
Holotype of Spartium cytisoides P.J.Bergius [family LEGUMINOSAE]
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Name

Identification
Lebeckia cytisoides Thunb. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Lebeckia cytisoides

Flora

Entry for LEBECKIA cytisoides Thunb. [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
LEBECKIA cytisoides Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Prod. p. 122;—Benth.! l. c. p. 360. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 562.
Crotalaria pulchella Andr. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 417. Bot. Mag. t. 1699.
Calobota pulchella E. & Z. [family ], ! 1332, 1333. Zey.! 2320.
Calobota cytisoides E. & Z. [family ], ! 1332, 1333. Zey.! 2320.
Information
silky-canescent, shrubby; twigs virgate, terete; leaves on long petioles, trifoliolate, leaflets linear-oblong, acute at base, mucronulate; racemes elongate, many-flowered; flowers large; calyx widely campanulate, glabrous, somewhat coloured, its teeth short, triangular, sub-acute, distant, with rounded interspaces, puberulous; vexillum and keel silky; legume terete, glabrous, septate within. A much-branched shrub, 2–4 feet high, with whitish bark, and pale grey foliage. Petioles 9–10 lines long; leaflets 10–12 lines long or more, acute at base and sometimes attenuate, obtuse or acute at point, sometimes narrow-cuneate. Racemes several inches long; flowers 8–10 lines long, bright yellow, on spreading, longish pedicels. Legumes deflexed, 1 1/2 inch long, mucronulate, terete, 1–1 1/2 lines in diameter.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Stellenbosch and Swellendam Districts, on hills, Drege., E. & Z.! &c. Bergriver, Pappe 112. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.)

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