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Galactia latisiliqua Desv.

Species

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Characteristics

dark, pubescent; rachis to 3 mm long; petioles shorter or longer than the terminal leaflet. Inflorescence lax, few flowered, to 3 cm long, peduncle slender, puber-ulent; pedicels 1-2 mm long, glabrate; bracts ca. 1 mm long, pubescent. Flowers pink, ca. 7 mm long, the calyx pubescent, 4-fid about 2/3 way down, the standard longer than the wings, erect. Legume flat, oblong, slightly falcate, 3-4 cm long, ca. 5 mm wide, softly pubescent on the sides, the margin straight, the valves slightly compressed between the seeds, tardily dehiscent, ultimately curling; seeds 6-10, brown and mottled, compressed ovoid, 3-4 mm long.
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Wiry perennial herb or suffrutex, erect or ascending, apically somewhat scan-dent, rooting from a short slender tap root, branching at the ground and only sparingly above; stems densely pubescent, tardily glabrescent. Leaves pinnate, trifoliolate, the leaflets alike, the lateral pair slightly smaller, thick, ovate, mostly (Panama) 1.5-2.5 cm long, apically rounded, mucronate, basally rounded or ob-tuse, the veins 3-5 on each side, prominent beneath, above ascending pilose to glabrous, beneath pilose to appressed pubescent; petiolules 1-1.5 mm long, drying
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Galactia latisiliqua world distribution map, present in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:495455-1
WFO ID wfo-0000170569
COL ID 3F22J
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Synonyms

Galactia flaviflora Galactia obovata Galactia latisiliqua Galactia velutina Collaea latisiliqua Galactia jussiaeana var. velutina Galactia jussiaeana var. volubilis Galactia neesii var. flaviflora Galactia latisiliqua var. latisiliqua
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