WorldFloraDB - Eriosema populifolium

Characteristics

Dwarf, ascending, everywhere densely clothed with long, soft, silky, white hairs; leaflets solitary (large), on longish petioles, cordate, subacute, penninerved; stipules broadly lanceolate, equalling the petiole, striate; peduncles rather shorter than the leaf, densely many flowered near the summit; calyx pilose, its lobes about equalling the tube; vexillum pilose. Stems 6-12 ? inches high, simple ? compressed or angular. Petioles uncial. Leaves 4 inches long, 3 inches wide, exactly heart-shaped. Stipules inch long, 3-4 lines wide, silky, scarious. Peduncles 3-4 inches long, bearing flowers for an inch below the end. Pedicels 2 lines long, subtended by lanceolate, deciduous bracts. Flowers 8 lines long. Calyx laxly pilose, its two upper segments connate nearly to the bifid summit, 3 lower lanceolate.

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Distinguished from other Eriosema spp. by its silver sericeous young leaflets and large connate incurved stipules. Perennial, ascending herb or dwarf shrub, with horizontal rhizome, stems sparsely covered in short appressed gold-coloured hairs. Leaves either simple, heart-shaped and up to 200 mm long (KZN) or trifoliolate. Leaflets smaller, elliptic (EC); young ones densely sericeous; lower surface of adult leaves glabrescent with pilose veins. Flowers orange-yellow; ± 15 mm long. Calyx pilose; lobes ± as long as tube. Corolla: wings orange; keel green-yellow and pink. Flowering time Oct., Nov. Seeds: plants rarely set seed because flowers abscise rapidly after opening.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494123-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000195495
COL ID	3B67X
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Synonyms

Eriosema populifolium Eriosema populifolium subsp. populifolium

Lower taxons

Eriosema populifolium subsp. capensis

WorldFloraDB 2024

Eriosema populifolium Benth. ex Harv. & Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Eriosema