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Vigna phoenix Brummitt [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
Vigna phoenix Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 31: 168 (1976). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 187 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 445 (1989). Type: Malawi, north end of Nyika Plateau, near Nganda, Synge WC 467 (K, holotype).
Vigna pygmaea var. grandiflora Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 551 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 652 (1971). —Brummitt in Wye Coll. Malawi Proj. Rep.: 66 (1972). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Pyrophytic perennial. Stem pubescent, up to 30 cm high, emerging from an elongate carrot-shaped woody rootstock 3–10 mm thick. Leaflets 3, 3–7 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide, ± pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base, with a spreading indumentum; tertiary venation closely parallel; petiole 4.5–5.5 cm long; rhachis 0.6–0.8 cm long; stipules 7–18 × 2.5–5.5 mm, slightly bilobed at the base, multinerved. Peduncle 4–13 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm, pubescent; rhachis 0.5–1.5 cm long, 2–6-noded, internodes 2–4 mm long. Flower pink to purple, 13–18 × 14–20 mm; pedicel 0.5–2.5 mm long, not expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles 1.5–3 × 0.5–1 mm, ovate, 3–4-nerved. Calyx pubescent; tube c. 3 mm long; lobes 2.5–5 mm long, the upper pair joined for half of their length, the lower equally long. Standard with 2 parallel widely spaced appendages; keel without a beak, slightly twisted towards the left. Ovary 12–15-ovuled. Pod 20–40 × 2–3 mm, linear-cylindrical, pubescent, with a curved beak. Seed c. 2 × 1.5–2 mm; hilum c. 0.5 mm long, central; aril not developed.
Habitat
Seasonally burnt grassland, plateau woodland
Altitude range
1000–2500 m, mainly at high altitude.
2500
1000
Distribution
Zambia S Mazabuka, Central Research Station, 1006 m, fl. 28.vii.1931, Trapnell 349 (K).Malawi N Viphya Plateau, 2134 m, fl. 24.ix.1956, Benson NR177 (BM).Zambia W Mufulira, fl. 23.viii.1955, Fanshawe 2425 (BR; K).
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
Vigna phoenix Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 31: 168 (1976). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 187 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 445 (1989). Type: Malawi, north end of Nyika Plateau, near Nganda, Synge WC 467 (K, holotype).
Vigna pygmaea var. grandiflora Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 551 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 652 (1971). —Brummitt in Wye Coll. Malawi Proj. Rep.: 66 (1972). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Pyrophytic perennial. Stem pubescent, up to 30 cm high, emerging from an elongate carrot-shaped woody rootstock 3–10 mm thick. Leaflets 3, 3–7 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide, ± pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base, with a spreading indumentum; tertiary venation closely parallel; petiole 4.5–5.5 cm long; rhachis 0.6–0.8 cm long; stipules 7–18 × 2.5–5.5 mm, slightly bilobed at the base, multinerved. Peduncle 4–13 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm, pubescent; rhachis 0.5–1.5 cm long, 2–6-noded, internodes 2–4 mm long. Flower pink to purple, 13–18 × 14–20 mm; pedicel 0.5–2.5 mm long, not expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles 1.5–3 × 0.5–1 mm, ovate, 3–4-nerved. Calyx pubescent; tube c. 3 mm long; lobes 2.5–5 mm long, the upper pair joined for half of their length, the lower equally long. Standard with 2 parallel widely spaced appendages; keel without a beak, slightly twisted towards the left. Ovary 12–15-ovuled. Pod 20–40 × 2–3 mm, linear-cylindrical, pubescent, with a curved beak. Seed c. 2 × 1.5–2 mm; hilum c. 0.5 mm long, central; aril not developed.
Habitat
Seasonally burnt grassland, plateau woodland
Altitude range
1000–2500 m, mainly at high altitude.
2500
1000
Distribution
Zambia S Mazabuka, Central Research Station, 1006 m, fl. 28.vii.1931, Trapnell 349 (K).Malawi N Viphya Plateau, 2134 m, fl. 24.ix.1956, Benson NR177 (BM).Zambia W Mufulira, fl. 23.viii.1955, Fanshawe 2425 (BR; K).
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
Vigna phoenix Brummitt [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 31: 168 (1976). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 187 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 445 (1989). Type: Malawi, north end of Nyika Plateau, near Nganda, Synge WC 467 (K, holotype).
Vigna pygmaea var. grandiflora Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 551 (1970); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 652 (1971). —Brummitt in Wye Coll. Malawi Proj. Rep.: 66 (1972). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Pyrophytic perennial. Stem pubescent, up to 30 cm high, emerging from an elongate carrot-shaped woody rootstock 3–10 mm thick. Leaflets 3, 3–7 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide, ± pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base, with a spreading indumentum; tertiary venation closely parallel; petiole 4.5–5.5 cm long; rhachis 0.6–0.8 cm long; stipules 7–18 × 2.5–5.5 mm, slightly bilobed at the base, multinerved. Peduncle 4–13 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm, pubescent; rhachis 0.5–1.5 cm long, 2–6-noded, internodes 2–4 mm long. Flower pink to purple, 13–18 × 14–20 mm; pedicel 0.5–2.5 mm long, not expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles 1.5–3 × 0.5–1 mm, ovate, 3–4-nerved. Calyx pubescent; tube c. 3 mm long; lobes 2.5–5 mm long, the upper pair joined for half of their length, the lower equally long. Standard with 2 parallel widely spaced appendages; keel without a beak, slightly twisted towards the left. Ovary 12–15-ovuled. Pod 20–40 × 2–3 mm, linear-cylindrical, pubescent, with a curved beak. Seed c. 2 × 1.5–2 mm; hilum c. 0.5 mm long, central; aril not developed.
Habitat
Seasonally burnt grassland, plateau woodland
Altitude range
1000–2500 m, mainly at high altitude.
2500
1000
Distribution
Zambia S Mazabuka, Central Research Station, 1006 m, fl. 28.vii.1931, Trapnell 349 (K).Malawi N Viphya Plateau, 2134 m, fl. 24.ix.1956, Benson NR177 (BM).Zambia W Mufulira, fl. 23.viii.1955, Fanshawe 2425 (BR; K).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
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