Droogmansia megalantha (Taub.) De Wild.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Droogmansia

Characteristics

Leaflets 3–12 × 0.6–3 cm, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or oblong, acute to rounded at the apex but mucronate, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrescent to densely pilose; petiole winged, or sometimes in upper leaves unwinged, 3–20 × 2–7 mm, linear, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, mostly shallowly to deeply emarginate at the apex; stipules 5–8 × 0.7–1.5 mm, linear to lanceolate.
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Fruit densely yellowish-hairy, stipitate, the stipe rapidly elongating and attaining 2.2–3.5 cm in length; articles 3–5, strongly compressed, 6 × 5 mm (?immature), broadly elliptic or rounded oblong.
Inflorescences terminal, simple, falsely racemose, 10–35 cm long, sometimes with axillary ones as well or a few flowers in the axils, pubescent to appressed pilose.
Rhizomatous subshrub with several stems from a woody base, or a more robust shrub with fewer stems, 0.15–1 m tall.
Stems pubescent to densely appressed-silvery-pilose or almost glabrous.
Calyx glabrescent to pilose with spreading white hairs.
Flowers as in D. pteropus.
Seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant.
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Usage

It is a milk curdling agent.
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Distribution

Droogmansia megalantha world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493480-1
WFO ID wfo-0000177691
COL ID 6DKDZ
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Synonyms

Droogmansia megalantha Meibomia huillensis Meibomia megalantha Desmodium huillensis Droogmansia huillensis Desmodium megalanthum

Lower taxons

Droogmansia megalantha var. pilosa