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Pseudoeriosema homblei

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Name

Identification
Glycine homblei De Wild. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pseudoeriosema homblei (De Wild.) Hauman [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hauman L., 1954
Related name
  • Glycine homblei
  • Pseudoeriosema homblei
  • Pseudoeriosema longipes

Flora

Entry for Pseudoeriosema homblei De Wild. Hauman [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Names
Pseudoeriosema homblei De Wild. Hauman [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.C.B. 6: 111 (1954). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 422 (1989). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo (Katanga Prov.).
Glycine homblei De Wild. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 13: 215 (1914); in Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles 38: 375 (1914). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 361 (1929).
Information
Herb or subshrub 0.5–1 m tall from a thick fibrous rootstock 25–30 × 2.5 cm. Stems 2–4, erect, ± angular, pubescent. Leaflets 3, 6–14 × 2.5–9 cm, elliptic to obovate, rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, densely velvety on both surfaces with whitish hairs; venation very distinctly raised-reticulate beneath; petiole and rhachis each 1–1.2 cm long; stipules 10–15 × 1–1.5 mm, linear. Inflorescences terminal contracted panicles, very dense and many-flowered, up to 12 × 10 cm in fruiting state; peduncle up to 11 cm long. Structure of flowers and inflorescences as in previous species. Pods c. 15 × 6.5 mm, oblong-elliptic, compressed, densely covered with whitish or pale ferruginous hairs. Seeds reddish-brown, 4 × 3 × 1.2 mm, rounded reniform, with well developed rim aril.
Habitat
Dambo in woodland with tall grasses, subject to fierce annual fires (chipya)
Altitude range
c. 1200–1350 m.
1350
1200
Distribution
Zambia W Solwezi, fr. 7.i.1969, Mutimushi 2946 (K; NDO).
Distribution (external)
Dem. Rep. Congo (Katanga Prov.)
Notes
Var. latistipulatum Hauman (type from the Katanga Province of the Dem. Rep. Congo) with leaflets 5 times as long as wide and stipules 3 mm wide appears to me from a photograph of the type to be Pseudoeriosema longipes and is not at all similar to true Pseudoeriosema homblei.

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