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Lotus tigrensis

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Name

Identification
Lotus tigrensis Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Lotus discolor E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lotus tigrensis
  • Lotus kilimnajaricus
  • Lotus discolor
  • Lotus goetzei
  • Lotus namulensis
  • Lotus kilimanjaricus

Flora

Entry for LOTUS tigrensis Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
LOTUS tigrensis Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Information
Stems herbaceous, a foot long, diffuse, thinly silky upwards. Leaflets 5, oblanceolate, subsessile, 6–8 lines long, thinly silky. Flowers 6–8 in an umbel on a downy peduncle 1 1/2–2 in. long. Bracts solitary, oblanceolate, 3–4 lines long. Pedicels downy, a line long. Calyx-tube campanulate, 1 1/2–2 lines deep, the teeth deltoid-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. Corolla yellow, 5 lines long. Pod linear, glabrous, 12–18-seeded; not seen fully developed.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre, Schimper!
Notes
Like L. arabicus in size and general habit; different in the calyx.

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