Lessertia brachypus Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Lessertia

Characteristics

Spreading or erect shrub, up to 1 m tall, minutely white-haired. Leaves pinnately 9-11-foliolate, leaflets elliptic-obovate, mucronate, sparsely hairy on undersurface. Flowers 6-8 per inflorescence with axis shorter than leaves, cream-coloured and purple. Pod obliquely ovate-oblong, compressed, glabrous, papery.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Lessertia brachypus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502625-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212605
COL ID 722ZQ
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Synonyms

Lessertia brachypus Coluteastrum glabratum Lessertia falciformis var. glabrata