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Dolichos simplicifolius Hook.f. [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
Dolichos simplicifolius Hook.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Mag.: t. 7318 (1893). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 437 (1929). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 692 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 396 (1989). Type: cultivated at Kew from tubers sent from Shire Highlands, Malawi, by Buchanan (K, holotype).
Information
Prostrate, ascending or erect herb, arising from a perennial tuberous rootstock; rootstock to 13 × 9 cm, ellipsoid. Stems annual, branched, undulate or zigzag, laterally flattened, ribbed, glabrous or with sparse spreading hairs on the ribs. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflet 4–23 × 1.4–4 cm, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, acute or rarely rounded and mucronulate at the apex, base cuneate, glabrous or pubescent on both surfaces, 3-veined from the base or very shortly above it to the apex, the tertiary venation quite conspicuous; petiole 3–8 mm long; stipules 8–13 × 3–5 mm, lanceolate, ciliate, striate, persistent; stipels minute. Flowers axillary, solitary, in pairs or in 3–8-flowered fascicles; pedicels 5–45 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose; bracts absent; bracteoles minute, linear. Calyx sparsely pubescent or glabrous; tube 3 mm long; lower lobes 1.5–3 mm long, triangular, upper pair almost or completely fused. Standard pale purple or lilac, usually drying yellowish-brown, 11–12 × 12 mm, almost round; wings and keel paler. Ovary 5–7 mm long, linear-oblong, compressed, densely pubescent; style 3–4 mm long, stigma minute, terminal, capitate, penicillate. Pods 4.5–7 cm × 5–10 mm, oblanceolate, glabrous or pubescent on the surfaces, margins sparsely to densely pubescent. Seeds unknown.
Habitat
Generally in dambos or shallow pans on rock outcrops in miombo woodland
Altitude range
700–1600 m.
1600
700
Distribution
Mozambique T Angónia Distr, Ulónguè, fl. 26.xi.1980, Macuácua 1321 (K; LMA).Malawi S Zomba Distr., T.A. Chikowi, Nambulira Village, fr. 10.i.1958, G. Jackson 2136 (BR; COI; K; LISC; MAL; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., near Bunda, fl. 5.xii.1964, A.N. Adams 32 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N in dambo north of Mandimba, fl. 20.xi.1941, M.G. Hornby 1108 (K).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, fl. & fr. iv.1902, McClounie 91 (K).Zambia W Ndola Distr., c. 16 km on Luanshya road, fl. & fr. 20.xi.1959, Wild 4862 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
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
Dolichos simplicifolius Hook.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Mag.: t. 7318 (1893). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 437 (1929). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 692 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 396 (1989). Type: cultivated at Kew from tubers sent from Shire Highlands, Malawi, by Buchanan (K, holotype).
Information
Prostrate, ascending or erect herb, arising from a perennial tuberous rootstock; rootstock to 13 × 9 cm, ellipsoid. Stems annual, branched, undulate or zigzag, laterally flattened, ribbed, glabrous or with sparse spreading hairs on the ribs. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflet 4–23 × 1.4–4 cm, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, acute or rarely rounded and mucronulate at the apex, base cuneate, glabrous or pubescent on both surfaces, 3-veined from the base or very shortly above it to the apex, the tertiary venation quite conspicuous; petiole 3–8 mm long; stipules 8–13 × 3–5 mm, lanceolate, ciliate, striate, persistent; stipels minute. Flowers axillary, solitary, in pairs or in 3–8-flowered fascicles; pedicels 5–45 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose; bracts absent; bracteoles minute, linear. Calyx sparsely pubescent or glabrous; tube 3 mm long; lower lobes 1.5–3 mm long, triangular, upper pair almost or completely fused. Standard pale purple or lilac, usually drying yellowish-brown, 11–12 × 12 mm, almost round; wings and keel paler. Ovary 5–7 mm long, linear-oblong, compressed, densely pubescent; style 3–4 mm long, stigma minute, terminal, capitate, penicillate. Pods 4.5–7 cm × 5–10 mm, oblanceolate, glabrous or pubescent on the surfaces, margins sparsely to densely pubescent. Seeds unknown.
Habitat
Generally in dambos or shallow pans on rock outcrops in miombo woodland
Altitude range
700–1600 m.
1600
700
Distribution
Mozambique T Angónia Distr, Ulónguè, fl. 26.xi.1980, Macuácua 1321 (K; LMA).Malawi S Zomba Distr., T.A. Chikowi, Nambulira Village, fr. 10.i.1958, G. Jackson 2136 (BR; COI; K; LISC; MAL; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., near Bunda, fl. 5.xii.1964, A.N. Adams 32 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N in dambo north of Mandimba, fl. 20.xi.1941, M.G. Hornby 1108 (K).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, fl. & fr. iv.1902, McClounie 91 (K).Zambia W Ndola Distr., c. 16 km on Luanshya road, fl. & fr. 20.xi.1959, Wild 4862 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
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
Dolichos simplicifolius Hook.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Mag.: t. 7318 (1893). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 437 (1929). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 692 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 396 (1989). Type: cultivated at Kew from tubers sent from Shire Highlands, Malawi, by Buchanan (K, holotype).
Information
Prostrate, ascending or erect herb, arising from a perennial tuberous rootstock; rootstock to 13 × 9 cm, ellipsoid. Stems annual, branched, undulate or zigzag, laterally flattened, ribbed, glabrous or with sparse spreading hairs on the ribs. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaflet 4–23 × 1.4–4 cm, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, acute or rarely rounded and mucronulate at the apex, base cuneate, glabrous or pubescent on both surfaces, 3-veined from the base or very shortly above it to the apex, the tertiary venation quite conspicuous; petiole 3–8 mm long; stipules 8–13 × 3–5 mm, lanceolate, ciliate, striate, persistent; stipels minute. Flowers axillary, solitary, in pairs or in 3–8-flowered fascicles; pedicels 5–45 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose; bracts absent; bracteoles minute, linear. Calyx sparsely pubescent or glabrous; tube 3 mm long; lower lobes 1.5–3 mm long, triangular, upper pair almost or completely fused. Standard pale purple or lilac, usually drying yellowish-brown, 11–12 × 12 mm, almost round; wings and keel paler. Ovary 5–7 mm long, linear-oblong, compressed, densely pubescent; style 3–4 mm long, stigma minute, terminal, capitate, penicillate. Pods 4.5–7 cm × 5–10 mm, oblanceolate, glabrous or pubescent on the surfaces, margins sparsely to densely pubescent. Seeds unknown.
Habitat
Generally in dambos or shallow pans on rock outcrops in miombo woodland
Altitude range
700–1600 m.
1600
700
Distribution
Mozambique T Angónia Distr, Ulónguè, fl. 26.xi.1980, Macuácua 1321 (K; LMA).Malawi S Zomba Distr., T.A. Chikowi, Nambulira Village, fr. 10.i.1958, G. Jackson 2136 (BR; COI; K; LISC; MAL; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza Distr., near Bunda, fl. 5.xii.1964, A.N. Adams 32 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N in dambo north of Mandimba, fl. 20.xi.1941, M.G. Hornby 1108 (K).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, fl. & fr. iv.1902, McClounie 91 (K).Zambia W Ndola Distr., c. 16 km on Luanshya road, fl. & fr. 20.xi.1959, Wild 4862 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
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