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Lotononis florifera

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Identification
Lotononis florifera Dummer [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lotononis carinata (E.Mey.) Benth. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by van Wyk, B-E.,
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  • Lotononis carinata
  • Lotononis tenella
  • Lotononis florifera

Flora

Entry for Lotononis carinata E. Mey. Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 7, (2003) Author: various authors
Names
Lipozygis carinata E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 80 (1836).
Lotononis transvaalensis Dummer [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 3: 292 (1913). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 387 (1932). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 225 (1989). Types from South Africa (Mpumalanga).
Lotononis pauciflora Dummer [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 3: 293 (1913). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 222 (1989). Type from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Lotononis florifera Dummer [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 3: 323 (1913). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 388 (1932). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 218 (1989). Type from South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).
Lotononis florifera var. major Burtt Davy [family LEGUMINOSAE], Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 388 (1932). Type from South Africa (Mpumalanga).
Lotononis carinata E. Mey. Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Hooker, London J. Bot. 2: 609 (1843). —Harvey in F.C. 2: 64 (1862). —Dummer in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 3: 323 (1913). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 216 (1989). —van Wyk in Contrib. Bolus Herb., No. 14: 139, fig. 38 (1991). Lectotype, selected by van Wyk, loc. cit., from South Africa (Eastern Cape Province).
Information
Stems numerous, erect and spreading from a branched perennial rootstock, 10–30 cm tall, slender, pubescent to pilose on younger parts. Leaves 3-foliolate, shortly petiolate; leaflets 8–15 × 2–5 mm, linear-elliptic to oblanceolate, pointed, mucronate, appressed pubescent on both surfaces; stipules paired at the nodes, 3–8 mm long, linear-elliptic. Flowers single or in clusters of up to 7, leaf-opposed; bracts 1–2 mm long, nearly as long as the pedicel, filiform or subulate; bracteoles lacking. Calyx 6–7 mm long, pubescent; upper and lateral lobes joined higher, 3–4 mm long, subulate. Standard yellow, longer than the keel, extensively pubescent outside; wings a little shorter than the keel; keel 8–10 mm long, obtuse, extensively pubescent. Pods 8–10 × 3 mm, oblong, glabrous except for a few hairs along the upper suture, c. 10-seeded. Mature seeds not seen.
Habitat
Short grassland, the single gathering from Mozambique collected near a river
Range
South Africa as far as southern KwaZulu-Natal
Altitude range
at 500 m, but extends into montane areas further south
500
500
Distribution
Mozambique M Catuane, Empresa Agro-Pecuária de Catuane, viveiros piscícolas, c. 500 m em direcção Foz do Rio, fl. 29.ix.1983, Zunguze, Boane & Dungo 578 (K; LMU).

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