Calobota acanthoclada (Dinter) Boatwr. & B.-e.van Wyk

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Calobota

Characteristics

Erect or decumbent, spinescent shrub, up to 1 m tall, older branchlets with blackish or greyish brown bark. Leaves simple, clustered on short shoots, petiole absent, leaflets spathulate, with appressed silver-grey silky hairs. Flowers in (1)3-5-flowered short racemes, yellow or dirty yellow, often tinged bluish, calyx hairy, standard densely sericeous. Pod linear, laterally compressed, sericeous.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Calobota acanthoclada world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77100890-1
WFO ID wfo-0000743457
COL ID 6P3NB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lebeckia candicans Lebeckia acanthoclada Lebeckia spathulifolia Calobota acanthoclada