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LOTUS glinoides Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
LOTUS glinoides Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Walp. Rep. i. 647.
Information
Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate-cuneate, 4–5 lines long, rather fleshy, glaucous, thinly grey-silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, or in clusters of 3–4 as if terminal on short leafy branches. Bracts trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8–9 lines long, slightly torulose, 8–10-seeded.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Kotschy!Abyssinia Nile Land (teste Schweinfurth).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
LOTUS glinoides Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Walp. Rep. i. 647.
Information
Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate-cuneate, 4–5 lines long, rather fleshy, glaucous, thinly grey-silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, or in clusters of 3–4 as if terminal on short leafy branches. Bracts trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8–9 lines long, slightly torulose, 8–10-seeded.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Kotschy!Abyssinia Nile Land (teste Schweinfurth).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Names
LOTUS glinoides Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Walp. Rep. i. 647.
Information
Stems herbaceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate-cuneate, 4–5 lines long, rather fleshy, glaucous, thinly grey-silky. Flowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, or in clusters of 3–4 as if terminal on short leafy branches. Bracts trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8–9 lines long, slightly torulose, 8–10-seeded.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Kotschy!Abyssinia Nile Land (teste Schweinfurth).
LOTUS glinoides Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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