Lessertia flexuosa E.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Lessertia

Characteristics

Shrubby, erect, much-branched, flexuous, the striate branches, petioles, and peduncles thinly appressed-silky; leaves short, patent, closely 6-7-jugate, leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous above, thinly silky beneath; racemes on long peduncles, distantly several-flowered; pedicels much longer than the puberulous calyx; ovary glabrous, few-ovuled; legumes glabrous, compressed, substipitate, obliquely ovate, the ventral suture curved or nearly straight, the dorsal much arched.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Lessertia flexuosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502646-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212623
COL ID 6Q2ZL
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Synonyms

Lessertia flexuosa Coluteastrum flexuosum