Leobordea polycephala (E.Mey.) B.-e.van Wyk & Boatwr.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Leobordea

Characteristics

Robust, densely hairy, short-lived annual, with stems up to 0.2 m long. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets oblanceolate to broadly obovate, densely silky. Flowers many, in dense globose or elongated heads, yellow, ± 10 mm long, bracts large, leaf-like, calyx much-inflated, densely hairy, standard and keel densely hairy. Pod minute, membranous, indehiscent, enclosed by much-inflated calyx.
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Decumbens, ramosa, mollissime sericeo-villosa, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis, foliolis ternis obovatis utrinque molliter incano-villosis, capitulis densissimis sessilibus, bracteis ovatis, calycibus hirsutissimis subinflatis, vexillo late obovato obtuse acuminato carinaque galeata extus sericeis.
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Distribution

Leobordea polycephala world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77110738-1
WFO ID wfo-0000749673
COL ID 6QNYL
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Synonyms

Lotononis polycephala Leobordea polycephala Lipozygis polycephala Amphinomia decumbens Polylobium polycephalum Connarus decumbens