Lessertia depressa Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Lessertia

Characteristics

Perennial, non-climbing herb, procumbent or prostrate, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves 30-60 mm long. Leaflets 6-8 x 1 mm, 3-6-jugate, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse, thinly strigose-pilose beneath. Inflorescence a short, dense raceme, up to 10 flowers; peduncles shorter than leaves or scarcely longer, 11-40 mm long; bracts 1 mm long, widely ovate, obtuse. Pedicels 1-2 mm long. Flowers up to 10 mm long. Calyx 2-4 mm long. Flowering time June-Sept. Pod 20-30 x 10-15 mm, glabrous, inflated, obliquely ovoid, substipitate, many-seeded.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Stems procumbent. Leaves 3-6-foliolate. Flowers: peduncles short; corolla pink; Sep.-Feb. Pods membranous, glabrous, conspicuously inflated.
Sprawling subshrub, 15-45 cm. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets oblong. Flowers crowded on peduncles shorter than leaves, pink. Pods obliquely ovoid, subinflated, glabrous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 7-8
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Lessertia depressa world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502633-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212614
COL ID 6Q2ZM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lessertia depressa Coluteastrum depressum