Argyrolobium eylesii Baker F.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Argyrolobium

Characteristics

Leaves usually well spaced; leaflets elliptic to widely obovate, subacute to rounded and apiculate at the apex, cuneate to obtuse at the base, sparsely pilose to whitish, greyish or yellowish tomentose or sericeous above and beneath; the terminal leaflets mostly 1.5–3 times as long as the petiole, 17–33 × 9–18 mm; petiole 5–15 mm long; stipules sometimes 3 at each node, 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm, linear to narrowly triangular, free, sericeous.
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Corolla yellow, turning reddish with age; standard 13–17 × 11–15 mm, obovate, sparsely to densely silky pubescent or tomentose outside on the upper half, glabrous or subglabrous to the base; wings 11–13 × 4–5 mm, obovate-oblong, with rows of folds between the upper veins, whitish pilose near apex; keel as long as the wings, the petals with a well developed crest towards the base, glabrous.
Inflorescence leaf-opposed, pedunculate, racemose but usually 1-flowered, sometimes 2–3-flowered; peduncle 5–70 mm long; bracts 3–6 mm long, linear.
Stems slender, usually less than 2 mm in diameter, up to c. 3 mm in diameter at the perennial base, grey or yellowish villous or sericeous.
Calyx 12–14 mm long, pilose to sericeous outside; the upper lip 2-lobed to near the base, the lobes lanceolate.
Erect subshrub up to 30 cm tall, with few to many stems from a woody taproot.
Pod 25–50 × 4–5 mm, oblong, flat, sericeous.
Seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Argyrolobium eylesii world distribution map, present in Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:475166-1
WFO ID wfo-0000213147
COL ID GK2W
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Synonyms

Argyrolobium eylesii