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Nesphostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker 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
Sphenostylis kerstingii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 176 (1902). Type from Togo.
Sphenostylis holosericea var. hastifolia Baker Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis calantha Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 818 (1933). Type from Tanzania.
Nesphostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 296, fig. 3 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 670, fig. 101 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 419 (1989). TAB. 3.5.21. Type from Angola.
Vigna holosericea Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 258 (1896).
Vigna hastifolia Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 177 (1902). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 565 (1958). —Torre in C.F.A. 3: 275 (1966). Type from Angola.
Information
Perennial climbing herb, 1–3 m long. Stems covered in pale spreading hairs. Leaflets 3–6 × 2–3.4 cm, elliptic or oblong, mucronate, occasionally slightly to moderately lobed, pubescent; petiole 1.5–4.2 cm long; rhachis 8–18 mm long; petiolules 2–4 mm long; stipules 3–4 mm long, triangular, striate. Flower on a peduncle 1–3 cm long; pedicel 2–6 mm long; bract to 3 mm long, triangular; bracteoles 4–6 mm in diameter, ovate, rounded, covered with dense soft ferruginous hairs. Calyx 8–10 mm long, similarly hairy. Standard blue or pale purple, 2.4–2.8 cm in diameter, ± rounded, emarginate. Pods 8–10.2 cm × 5–9 mm, linear, covered in dense soft ferruginous hairs, many-seeded. Seeds 5–6 × 4 × 1–3 mm, oblong, with a well developed pale-coloured aril thickened and grooved.
Habitat
Found on disturbed ground
Range
West Africa to Angola, Tanzania and Mozambique
Altitude range
150–1200 m.
1200
150
Distribution
Mozambique Z Lugela Distr., Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. & fr. 14.iv.1948, Faulkner Kew 253 (K) and fl. & fr. i–iii.1943, Faulkner PRE 364 (K; PRE).
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
Sphenostylis kerstingii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 176 (1902). Type from Togo.
Sphenostylis holosericea var. hastifolia Baker Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis calantha Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 818 (1933). Type from Tanzania.
Nesphostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 296, fig. 3 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 670, fig. 101 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 419 (1989). TAB. 3.5.21. Type from Angola.
Vigna holosericea Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 258 (1896).
Vigna hastifolia Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 177 (1902). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 565 (1958). —Torre in C.F.A. 3: 275 (1966). Type from Angola.
Information
Perennial climbing herb, 1–3 m long. Stems covered in pale spreading hairs. Leaflets 3–6 × 2–3.4 cm, elliptic or oblong, mucronate, occasionally slightly to moderately lobed, pubescent; petiole 1.5–4.2 cm long; rhachis 8–18 mm long; petiolules 2–4 mm long; stipules 3–4 mm long, triangular, striate. Flower on a peduncle 1–3 cm long; pedicel 2–6 mm long; bract to 3 mm long, triangular; bracteoles 4–6 mm in diameter, ovate, rounded, covered with dense soft ferruginous hairs. Calyx 8–10 mm long, similarly hairy. Standard blue or pale purple, 2.4–2.8 cm in diameter, ± rounded, emarginate. Pods 8–10.2 cm × 5–9 mm, linear, covered in dense soft ferruginous hairs, many-seeded. Seeds 5–6 × 4 × 1–3 mm, oblong, with a well developed pale-coloured aril thickened and grooved.
Habitat
Found on disturbed ground
Range
West Africa to Angola, Tanzania and Mozambique
Altitude range
150–1200 m.
1200
150
Distribution
Mozambique Z Lugela Distr., Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. & fr. 14.iv.1948, Faulkner Kew 253 (K) and fl. & fr. i–iii.1943, Faulkner PRE 364 (K; PRE).
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
Sphenostylis kerstingii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 176 (1902). Type from Togo.
Sphenostylis holosericea var. hastifolia Baker Baker f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis calantha Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 818 (1933). Type from Tanzania.
Nesphostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 296, fig. 3 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 670, fig. 101 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 419 (1989). TAB. 3.5.21. Type from Angola.
Vigna holosericea Welw. ex Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 258 (1896).
Vigna hastifolia Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 200 (1871). Type from Nigeria.
Sphenostylis holosericea Welw. ex Baker Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 177 (1902). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 419 (1929). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 565 (1958). —Torre in C.F.A. 3: 275 (1966). Type from Angola.
Information
Perennial climbing herb, 1–3 m long. Stems covered in pale spreading hairs. Leaflets 3–6 × 2–3.4 cm, elliptic or oblong, mucronate, occasionally slightly to moderately lobed, pubescent; petiole 1.5–4.2 cm long; rhachis 8–18 mm long; petiolules 2–4 mm long; stipules 3–4 mm long, triangular, striate. Flower on a peduncle 1–3 cm long; pedicel 2–6 mm long; bract to 3 mm long, triangular; bracteoles 4–6 mm in diameter, ovate, rounded, covered with dense soft ferruginous hairs. Calyx 8–10 mm long, similarly hairy. Standard blue or pale purple, 2.4–2.8 cm in diameter, ± rounded, emarginate. Pods 8–10.2 cm × 5–9 mm, linear, covered in dense soft ferruginous hairs, many-seeded. Seeds 5–6 × 4 × 1–3 mm, oblong, with a well developed pale-coloured aril thickened and grooved.
Habitat
Found on disturbed ground
Range
West Africa to Angola, Tanzania and Mozambique
Altitude range
150–1200 m.
1200
150
Distribution
Mozambique Z Lugela Distr., Mocuba, Namagoa, fl. & fr. 14.iv.1948, Faulkner Kew 253 (K) and fl. & fr. i–iii.1943, Faulkner PRE 364 (K; PRE).
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