Humularia kapiriensis (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Humularia

Characteristics

Leaves (2)4(6)-foliolate; leaflets 1–35 × 6–23 mm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, often mucronulate, obliquely rounded at the base, glabrous or nearly so, entire, the main nerve oblique, dividing the leaf into unequal parts, the one about double the width of the other; venation prominent; up to 7 other basal nerves; petiole 6–30 mm long with similar indumentum to the stem; rhachis 0–2 cm long often prolonged as a bristle c. 2 mm long; stipules 7–28 × 6–25 mm, broadly elliptic, rounded at both ends or only slightly emarginate at the base, densely veined.
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Inflorescences mostly borne on shoots with leaves reduced to stipules, 4 cm long, sometimes branched; peduncle 5–12 mm long, glabrous or hairy; pedicels 0.5 mm long; bracts yellow-green, 14–18 × 2–24 mm, rounded, divided shortly or up to one-third their length into two rounded entire, glabrous or very sparsely ciliate venose lobes; bracteoles 3–6 × 1–3 mm, elliptic or oblong, glabrous or with a few cilia.
Fruit of 1–2 articles; articles three-quarters-elliptic, the upper margin straight, the lower strongly curved, 5–6 × 4–5.5 mm, pubescent with tubercular-based hairs, mostly bent back on each other.
Seeds very dark red-brown, 3.2 × 2.8 × 1.5 mm, compressed ellipsoid, the minute round hilum very eccentric with seed somewhat beaked beyond it.
Stems mostly much-branched, glabrous or densely covered with stiff tubercular-based hairs, often flattened.
Calyx lobes 10–11 × 3–4 mm, oblong-lanceolate, the upper entire, the lower curved, very shortly 3-fid.
Standard yellow, 1–16 × 5–10 mm, panduriform or rectangular below with an enlarged rounded apex.
Erect or prostrate subshrub 0.6–2.1 m tall or long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Distribution

Humularia kapiriensis world distribution map, present in Angola and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498736-1
WFO ID wfo-0000174882
COL ID 6MFLD
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Synonyms

Humularia kapiriensis Geissaspis welwitschii var. kapiriensis

Lower taxons

Humularia kapiriensis var. nummularia Humularia kapiriensis var. kapiriensis Humularia kapiriensis var. repens