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Lotononis depressa

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Identification
Lotononis unrecorded unrecorded [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Lotononis laxa Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Lotononis pungens Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by Van Wyk, B.-E., Lotononis depressa Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by Dummer, R., Lotononis grandis Dummer & Jenn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Lotononis laxa
  • Lotononis depressa
  • Lotononis grandis
  • Lotononis pungens
  • Lotononis unrecorded

Flora

Entry for LOTONONIS depressa E. & Z. [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
LOTONONIS depressa E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1278
Information
suffruticose, small, diffuse, silky and silvery; stipule solitary, linear or cuneate, leaflike; leaflets ternate, linear, or cuneate, or sublanceolate, silvery; flowers solitary, opposite the leaves, on very short pedicels; calyx deeply cut, silvery, its lobes subequal, lanceolate, shorter than the corolla; vexillum subciliate, equalling the broadly falcate glabrous carina; legume densely pilloso-villous, twice as long as the calyx, subturgid. Densely cæspitose, the stems 3–4 inches long, branched from the base. Pubescence of stem and leaves copious, silvery and close pressed; that of the legume loosely but softly hairy. Leaflets variable in shape. It is nearly intermediate between L. laxa and L. pungens, having the pubescence of the former and the legumes of the latter.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between the Gauritz River and the Langekloof, E. & Z.! (Herb. Sd, D.)

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