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Pearsonia mucronata

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Identification
Pearsonia mucronata BurttDavy [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Young,R.G.N., Pearsonia sessilifolia (Schinz) Polhill [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pearsonia mucronata
  • Pearsonia unrecorded
  • Pearsonia atherstonei
  • Pearsonia sessilifolia

Flora

Entry for Pearsonia sessilifolia Harv. Dummer [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
Pearsonia sessilifolia Harv. Dummer [family LEGUMINOSAE], in J. Bot. 50: 354 (1912). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 383 (1932). —Letty et al., Wild Fl. Transvaal: 164, t. 82/2 (1962). —Polhill in Kew Bull. 29: 400 (1974). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 229 (1989). Type from South Africa (Gauteng).
Lotononis sessilifolia Harv. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.C. 2: 66 (1862).
Pearsonia sessilifolia var. conrathii Dummer [family LEGUMINOSAE], in J. Bot. 50: 354 (1912) pro parte excl. specim. ex Zulu. —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, pt. 2: 383 (1932). Lectotype from South Africa (Gauteng/Mpumalanga), selected by Polhill in Kew Bull. 29 (1974).
Pearsonia mucronata Burtt Davy ex Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 20 (1926). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 225 (1972). Type: Zimbabwe, Rusape, Hislop Z. 220 (K, holotype).
Information
Stems erect, 0.1–1.2 m tall, usually several from a woody ± rhizomatous rootstock, often branching only towards the top, sparsely hairy to tomentose. Leaflets (0.8)1.5–5 × 0.1–1 cm, linear, oblanceolate or attenuately elliptic-oblong or obovate, apiculate, sparsely pilose to tomentellous or tomentose; petiole 0–1 cm long; stipules lacking. Flowers yellow, turning reddish-brown, sometimes few at branch-ends, sometimes in short to long, dense or lax racemes; bracts (2)4–7(10) mm long, obovate or subcircular; pedicels 1–2(3) mm long; bracteoles filiform to obovate or subcircular. Calyx 5–8 mm long, shortly appressed pubescent to tomentellous or coarsely tomentose; upper lip almost always shorter than the tube, with generally small upper and lateral lobes united to varying degrees. Standard 8–13(15) mm long, pubescent outside. Stamens all joined. Ovary 14–30-ovulate. Pod 1.5–2.5 × 0.4–0.5 cm, narrowly oblong-pointed. Seeds 2–2.5 mm across, oblique-cordiform.

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