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Lupinus mexicanus

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Identification
Lupinus bilineatus Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Lupinus mexicanus Cerv. ex Lag [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lupinus sitgreavesii
  • Lupinus bilineatus
  • Lupinus mexicanus
  • Lupinus hartwegii

Flora

Entry for Lupinus mexicanus Cerv. [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
Lupinus mexicanus Cerv. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Lagasca y Segura, Gen. Pl. Nov.: 22 (1816). —Edwards, Bot. Reg.: t. 457 (1820). Type from Mexico.
Lupinus ehrenbergii Schltr. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Linnaea 12: 33 (1838). —C.P. Smith, Sp. Lupin.: 43 (1938). —Polhill in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 1000 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 283 (1989). Type from Mexico.
Lupinus pubescens [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Drummond in Kirkia 8: 223 (1972) non Benth.
Information
Erect annual or short-lived perennial, up to 1 m tall. Stem villous with very long spreading hairs over a denser pubescence. Leaflets 7–9, 2.5–7 × 0.5–1.5 cm, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong-elliptic, pointed or rounded at the apex, usually pilose on both surfaces; petiole 7–16 cm long; stipules 1–3 cm long, the free part linear-subulate. Racemes up to 15–50 cm long, with many ± verticillate flowers; bracts up to 20 mm long, linear-caudate to lanceolate-caudate; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Calyx (8)10–12 mm long, tomentose; upper lip bifid; lower lobe entire to minutely 3-fid. Standard subcircular, mostly blue or pink, glabrous; wings ± as long as the keel; keel 1.2–1.4 cm long, narrowly beaked. Pod 2.5–4 × 0.5–0.8 cm, narrowly oblong, with a straight beak, villous, with rather thin valves impressed between the 3–6 rather small seeds.
Habitat
Damp places by rivers and seasonally flooded grassland (“vleis”) and along roadsides
Range
Native of Central America, locally naturalized in Zimbabwe, Malawi and southern Tanzania
Altitude range
900–1450 m.
1450
900
Distribution
Malawi S Zomba Distr., Magomero, fl. 30.xi.1955, Banda 144 (K; MAL).Zimbabwe C Harare, Salisbury Drive, Mabelreign, fl. 18.vii.1971, Biegel 3599 (K; SRGH).

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