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Lessertia annularis

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Name

Identification
Lessertia annularis Burch. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for LESSERTIA annularis Burch. [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
LESSERTIA annularis Burch. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Voy. 1, p. 304;—DC. Prod. 2. 272. E. Mey.! Comm. p. 120. E. & Z.! 1638.
LESSERTIA arcuata E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1639.
LESSERTIA falciformis E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1637.
Information
herbaceous, erect or diffuse, thinly albo-strigose; leaflets 6–10-jugate, oblong-obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, thinly strigose on one or both sides; peduncles longer or shorter than the leaf, shortly racemose near the summit; pedicels shorter than the calyx; legumes linear, compressed, obtuse, mucronate, arched in a semicircle or more or less completely annular. Many stemmed, slightly lignescent at base, 10–15 inches high, the young plant erect. Pubescence scanty, close-pressed. Leaflets variable in size, 2–8 lines long. Peduncles very variable, even on the same specimen. Legumes commonly semicircular, but sometimes completely annular. Scarcely two specimens exactly alike of those examined.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Bokpoort, Nieuweveld and Matjesvalei, Drege! Beaufort and Albany, and in Uitenhage and Swellendam, E. & Z.! Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)

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