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Zornia pratensis

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Identification
Isotype of Zornia pratensis Milne-Redh. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for ZORNIA pratensis Milne-Redh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1971) Author: J. B. GILLETT, R. M. POLHILL & B. VERDCOURT
Names
ZORNIA pratensis Milne-Redh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in B.J.B.B. 24: 127 (1954) & in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 28: 93 (1954); J. Léon. & Milne-Redh. in F.C.B. 5: 358 (1954); Mohlenbr. in Webbia 16: 74 (1961); Torre in C.F.A. 3: 216 (1966). Type: Uganda, Masaka District, 1.6 km. from Katera on Kiebbe road, Drummond & Hemsley 4517 (K, holo.!)
Information
Perennial herb, with a thickened often creeping perennating root. Stems numerous, erect at first, ultimately decumbent, up to 3.5 dm. long. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets of upper leaves obliquely linear-elliptic, up to 27 × 5 mm., acute or shortly apiculate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, glandular-punctate, especially near the margin, beneath; those of lower leaves similar. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, up to 12 mm. long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, often shorter than the internodes, sparsely beset with glands, glabrous. Flowers longer than the bracts. Calyx ± 4.0 mm. long. Petals yellow with red veins; standard often orange-red outside, up to 10 mm. long, but often less. Legume up to 17 mm. long and 7-seeded, but more usually 5–6-seeded; segments 2.5 × 2 mm.; bristles beset with short spreading hairs, rarely glabrous.

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