Eriosema salignum E.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Eriosema

Characteristics

Suberect, tall, the stem, petioles, and peduncles cano-sericeous, with short, soft hairs; leaflets 3, oblong or linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, green above, silky-white and penninerved beneath; stipules oblongo-lanceolate, free; peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves, racemose beyond the middle, with many reflexed, imbricating flowers; calyx pilose, its segments longer than the tube. Stems several, 6-18 inches high, subsimple. Stipules 1/2-3/4 inch long, striate. Petioles 1/2-3/4 inch long. Leaflets 1/2-3 inches long, 1/2-3/4 inch wide, subglabrous above, mostly white beneath; in á green and partly naked. Peduncles 3-6 inches long, the raceme 1-2 inches long. Flowers closely reflexed, 5 lines long. Calyx-segments a little shorter than the hairy vexillum. Very near E. squarrosum, but the leaves are longer and narrower, and the flowers rather larger.
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Perennial, erect herb, with nodular rootstock, 0.1-0.6 m high; stems sparsely appressed grey-sericeous. Leaflets narrowly elliptic, acute, ‘fish-bone’-nerved; upper surface glabrous; lower surface densely silvery-white appressed pilose with longer appressed hairs on veins. Flowers pink-orange or yellow. Calyx sparsely long-sericeous; segments longer than tube. Pod dark gold-coloured shaggy-haired.
Suffrutex, up to 0.6 m high. Stems erect; stems, petioles and peduncles cano-sericeous. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets linear to narrowly ovate, up to 100 mm long, upper surface green, lower surface silky white, penninerved; stipules free. Flowers: corolla yellow and red; Oct.-Mar. Pods 10-15 mm long.
An erect herb or small shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. The stems are slender and with few branches. They have silky hairs. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.45 - 0.55
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Grassland. Veld and mountain slopes.
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It is a subtropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 6-7
Soil acidity -
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Usage

Use unsure.
Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode seedlings
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Germination treatment soaking
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Images

Eriosema salignum unspecified picture

Distribution

Eriosema salignum world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494163-1
WFO ID wfo-0000195517
COL ID 3B692
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Eriosema salignum Rhynchosia saligna