Chamaecrista gracilior (Ghesq.) Lock

Species

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Characteristics

Leaves paripinnate, 2.4–6.5 × 0.4–0.5 cm; stipules 5–6 × 1 mm, very narrowly triangular, apex long-acuminate, base cuneate to subcordate, surfaces and margins glabrous; petiolar gland single, dark, 0.1–0.3 mm in diameter, circular, stalked, the stalk 0.3–0.6 mm long, the whole trumpet-shaped; rachis weakly crenate-crested, not winged, hairy only at the insertions of the leaflets above, sparsely crisped-pubescent beneath; leaflets in 30–40 pairs, 2–4 × 0.5–0.7 mm, narrowly triangular-oblong to falcate, asymmetric, base asymmetric, proximal side rounded, distal side narrowly cuneate, apex mucronate, margins sparsely ascending-ciliate, surfaces virtually glabrous; midrib 0.3–0.4 mm from proximal margin, 0.2 mm from distal; 2–3 lateral nerves from base on proximal side, 0–1 on distal side.
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Inflorescences axillary to distinctly supra-axillary, 1–2-flowered; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long in flower, a little longer in fruit, pubescent with crisped appressed hairs.
Ovary c.2.5 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent; style c.1 mm long, glabrous; stigma oblique.
Sepals 5–5.5 × 3 mm, narrowly ovate, acuminate, sparsely appressed-pubescent outside.
Seeds (immature) pale brown, rectangular-elliptic, c.2.5 × 1.5 mm.
Annual, occasionally short-lived perennial, usually erect herb.
Pods (1.5)2.5–3 × 0.3–0.35 cm, sparsely appressed-pubescent.
Petals cream to yellow, drying pinkish, up to 4.5 × 3 mm.
Stems terete, pubescent with crisped hairs.
Stamens 10.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Chamaecrista gracilior world distribution map, present in Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:945405-1
WFO ID wfo-0000184131
COL ID TJB8
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Synonyms

Cassia gracilior Cassia fallacina var. gracilior Chamaecrista gracilior