Humularia pseudaeschynomene Verdc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Humularia

Characteristics

Leaves (2)4–6-foliolate, glaucous; leaflets 12–27 × 7–18 mm, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, rounded to truncate and slightly mucronulate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, the apical ones obliquely so, glabrous but sometimes with small yellow dots of resinous secretion which are readily detachable and perhaps not normal, entire; main nerve central or slightly eccentric but with 3–4 nerves to one side and only one on the other; venation distinctly raised and reticulate; petiole 5–10 mm long, glabrous or hairy with similar indumentum to that on the stems; petiolules c. 1 mm long; rhachis 7–14 mm long; stipules 5–9 × 3–6 mm, oblong-elliptic to obovate, obtuse at the apex, variable at the base on the same shoot, either completely unappendaged or with 2 distinct basal symmetrical appendages or only 1, mostly c. 2 mm long, glabrous, veined, entire.
More
Inflorescences rather more loosely strobilate than in most species, 1.5–3 cm long, axillary or sometimes borne on axillary branches on which leaves are very reduced or represented only by stipules; peduncles 8–35 mm long, glabrous or hairy; pedicels 1.5 mm long; bracts divided completely to the base, lobes 5–8 × 4.5–7 mm, round or broadly elliptic, rounded at both ends, glabrous, entire with venation prominently reticulate; bracteoles not seen, ?early deciduous.
Rhizomatous suffrutex with creeping stems 15–40 cm long which are burnt back every year, glabrous or densely covered with rather short tubercular-based glandular hairs.
Calyx lobes glabrous, 5.5 × 2.5 mm, elliptic, the upper entire, the lower distinctly 3-fid.
Standard yellow, 7 × 4.5 mm, panduriform, emarginate.
Ovary glabrous, 2-ovuled.
Fruit not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Humularia pseudaeschynomene world distribution map, present in Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498749-1
WFO ID wfo-0000175033
COL ID 6MFN3
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Humularia pseudaeschynomene