Entry for LOTONONIS sericophylla Benth. [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 sericophyllaBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c. p. 599
Information
dwarf, diffusely much branched, everywhere thinly silky, with short, white, closepressed hairs; leaflets small, linear or cuneate; stipule solitary, lanceolate-linear; peduncles one-flowered, short; vexillum and legume densely silky; calyx teeth acuminate, as long as the tube. Zeyher! 399. A small, much branched suffrutex, 8–12 inches high; stem woody at base, breaking up into many, slender, flexuous, vaguely divided branches. Leaves, including petiole, not half an inch long, the leaflets mostly cuneate, 1/2 line in breadth; stipules generally as long as the petiole, sometimes wanting. Flowers sub-solitary toward the ends of the branches. Pods 3/4 inch long, 1 1/2 lines wide.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Wolf-kop, near Caledon, Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.)
