Aeschynomene pawekiae Verdc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Aeschynomene

Characteristics

Leaves (6)10–14-foliolate; leaflets glaucous, (5)7–14 × 2–7 mm, oblong, rounded to truncate at the apex and when young with fine white hair terminating the mucro soon breaking off, bleakly rounded at the base, glabrous, 5–7-nerved from the base including the distinctly eccentric main nerve; petiole and rhachis together 1.5–5.3 cm long, with sparse bristly hairs; stipules 3–7 × 0.8–2.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 7–13-nerved, not appendaged.
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Standard yellow, obovate; blade 6 × 4–4.8 mm, emarginate at apex with triangular acute auricles at base and claw 1.1 mm long; wings narrowly oblong, blade 7 × 2.2 mm with triangular auricle and claw 1.3 mm long; keel yellow, 5.8 mm long including claw, the petals joined for c. 1.5 mm at the base and with a sinus beyond the basal auricle, not laciniate.
Inflorescences axillary, 1.5–2.5(4) cm long; peduncles up 1.5 cm long; pedicels 2.5–4 mm long; bracts 3–5 × 1.1–1.5(2) mm long, lanceolate, persistent, 7-nerved, with marginal bristle-like hairs; bracteoles 3 × 0.5–0.8 mm, narrowly lanceolate, sparsely white bristly ciliate.
Fruit with 1 deleloped circular article 5–5.5 × 4.5–5.5 mm, glabrous, beaked with a second undeveloped article and sometimes also persistent style or, occasionally terminal article is developed and undeveloped one below it; stipe 1.2 mm long.
Diffuse ± glaucous herb with horizontal stems or prostrate, up to 1 m long, with sparse white ± stiff hairs 0.5–1 mm long, from thickened bases but otherwise glabrous; older stems minutely tuberculate where hairs have broken off.
Calyx lobed, the upper 3–4 × 2 mm, entire, the lower 4.2–5 × 2 mm, 3-lobed.
Seeds brown, 3.5 × 3 mm, semi-circular reniform in outline, compressed.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1016181-1
WFO ID wfo-0000522197
COL ID 65C88
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Synonyms

Aeschynomene pawekiae