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Calobota pungens (Thunb.) Boatwr. & B.-e.van Wyk

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Calobota

Characteristics

Divaricately much-branched, perennial shrub, 1.2-1.6(-2.5) m high; spiny, very rigid; twigs finely tomentose, sericeous. Leaves unifoliolate, rarely trifoliolate, flattish, few and distant, obovate to widely obovate. Flowers bright yellow, spread along pungent branchlets. Calyx: tube widely campanulate; teeth very short and broad, almost absent. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Pod white-tomentose.
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Rigid, many-branched, almost leafless, pungent shrub, up to 2.5 m tall, sericeous. Leaves unifoliolate, petiole up to 3 mm long, leaflet obovate to oblong. Flowers 4-10, in rigid spine-tipped racemes, yellow, calyx shortly hairy, lobes short and broad, standard pilose along dorsal midrib. Pod laterally compressed, slightly falcate, densely tomentose.
Erect, thorny, almost leafless shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves 1(-3)-foliolate, petiole shorter than leaflets. Flowers bright yellow, wings shorter than keel. Pods oblong to falcate, tomentose, indehiscent, thin-walled.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.5
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 5-8
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Distribution

Calobota pungens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77100902-1
WFO ID wfo-0000743468
COL ID 3SPKM
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Synonyms

Lebeckia pungens Stiza pungens Stiza erioloba Genista pungens Calobota pungens Acanthobotrya pungens Lebeckia subnuda
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