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Pseudovigna Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pseudovigna Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 390, fig. 4 (1970).
Dolichos sect. pseudovigna Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas [Veg. Erde 9] 3: 681 (1915).
Information
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs.Stems densely covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on the undersurface; stipules and stipels present.Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes.Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair partly connate, covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages.Vexillary stamen free or joined to the others at base; anthers ± uniform.Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled; style glabrous, slender, geniculate, flattened proximal to the bend, terete distally; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.Pod oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1–3-seeded.Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed, funicle remnant persistent.
Range
A monotypic genus from tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pseudovigna Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 390, fig. 4 (1970).
Dolichos sect. pseudovigna Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas [Veg. Erde 9] 3: 681 (1915).
Information
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs.Stems densely covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on the undersurface; stipules and stipels present.Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes.Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair partly connate, covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages.Vexillary stamen free or joined to the others at base; anthers ± uniform.Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled; style glabrous, slender, geniculate, flattened proximal to the bend, terete distally; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.Pod oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1–3-seeded.Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed, funicle remnant persistent.
Range
A monotypic genus from tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Pseudovigna Harms Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 390, fig. 4 (1970).
Dolichos sect. pseudovigna Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Engler, Pflanzenw. Afrikas [Veg. Erde 9] 3: 681 (1915).
Information
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs.Stems densely covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on the undersurface; stipules and stipels present.Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes.Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair partly connate, covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.Corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages.Vexillary stamen free or joined to the others at base; anthers ± uniform.Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled; style glabrous, slender, geniculate, flattened proximal to the bend, terete distally; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.Pod oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1–3-seeded.Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed, funicle remnant persistent.
Range
A monotypic genus from tropical Africa.
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