Aspalathus corniculata R.Dahlgren

Species

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Characteristics

Small, ascending shrublet, rather freely branched, with rigid, rather slender branches puberulous on the young parts. Short-shoots soon developed in axils of long-shoot leaves. Leaflets (of long-shoot leaves) flat, lanceolate, 3-6 x 1-1.5 mm, keeled-canaliculate, rigid, recurved, glabrous (or subglabrous), tapering into a sharp spinelet ±1 mm long or more. Inflorescence consisting of a terminal group of 2-3 small flowers attached at nearly the same point. Bract subulate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, half consisting of an apical spine, ciliate. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles subulate, ±2 mm long. Calyx tube short-tomentose; lobes linear-subulate, 4-5 mm long, subglabrous, tapering into a sharp, ± recurved spine; lowest lobe somewhat longer than the others. Petals yellow or ± red. Standard blade ovate, ±6 x 5.3 mm, obtuse, short-hairy on the back. Wing blades oblong, ±4.7 x 1.7 mm, glabrous. Keel blades 5-5.5 x ±2.5 mm, pubescent on the lower parts of the apical half, with convex upper margin. Pistil pubescent on ovary and style base; ovules 4 or 5. Pod lanceolate-fusiform, ±9 x 2.7 mm, smooth, sparsely hairy.
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Small, rigid shrublet. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets lanceolate, spine-tipped, flat, keeled, rigid, recurved, subglabrous. Flowers in a terminal cluster, yellow or reddish, wings glabrous, keel hairy, calyx hairy, lobes awl-shaped, spine-tipped, recurved, lowest lobe longer than others, subglabrous.
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Distribution

Aspalathus corniculata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:475485-1
WFO ID wfo-0000211174
COL ID 685JV
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Synonyms

Aspalathus corniculata