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Lessertia herbacea (L.) Druce

Species

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Characteristics

Erect or sprawling perennial to 50 cm, with slender stems from base. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets linear-oblong. Flowers in short racemes soon elongating, on peduncles longer than leaves and becoming stiff and arched in fruit, pink to purple. Pods obliquely broadly ovate or semi-lunate, compressed around margins but subinflated in middle, pedicels as long as or longer than calyx and mostly blackish hairy.
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Sprawling herb, spreading from taproot, stems 0.3-0.5 m long, minutely bristly with appressed whitish hairs. Leaves distant, pinnately 11-19-foliolate, leaflets narrowly linear. Flowers in ± loose, elongated inflorescences exceeding leaves, dull purple, calyx with blackish hairs. Pod broadly obovate, slightly gibbous, compressed, glabrous, faintly veined, papery, narrowed towards base.
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Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 5-6
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Distribution

Lessertia herbacea world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502650-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212630
COL ID 6PQZG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lessertia propinqua Lessertia linearis Lessertia herbacea Sulitra pubescens Sulitra africana Colutea linearis Colutea annua Coluteastrum abbreviatum Lessertia abbreviata Lessertia annua Colutea herbacea Sulitra herbacea Coluteastrum herbaceum
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