Entry for MELOLOBIUM alpinum 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
MELOLOBIUM alpinumE. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1331
Information
suffruticose, unarmed, ascending, thinly pubescent, viscidulous, but not glandular; leaflets linear-oblong, mucronulate, glabrescent or sparsely pubescent; stipules semi-cordate, acuminate, much shorter than the petiole; flowers in a dense pseudo-spike, rachis flexuous; calyx shortly cleft, its upper lobes bluntly ovate, lower lip sub-entire, tridenticulate; legume? Much-branched from near the base, the branches 8–12 inches long, curved, simple, ending in the inflorescence. Flowers bright yellow. Much less hairy than M. cernuum, with a different calyx.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Winterberg, E. & Z.! Sunny spots half way up the Mt., Autumn. Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. Sd., D.)
