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Lessertia physodes Eckl. & Zeyh.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb, erect or ascending, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves 68-70 mm long. Leaflets 14-16 x 2 mm, 4-6-jugate, linear-oblong or sublanceolate, obtuse or acute; upper surface glabrous; lower surface strigose. Stipules 2-5 mm long, lanceolate, strigillose on sides. Inflorescence corymbose-racemose near the top, 10-20-flowered; peduncles 45-80 mm long, longer than leaves; bracts 1 mm long. Pedicels 2-3 mm long. Flowers 8-10 mm long. Calyx 1-3 mm long, puberulous. Gynoecium: ovary glabrous, 11-ovuled; style bearded nearly halfway ventrally and also around stigma. Flowering time Jan.-Oct. Pod 18-28 x 8-11 mm, glabrous, inflated, oval-oblong, acute at each end, not very unequal sided.
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Erect or ascending, suffruticose, the angular stem, the petioles and peduncles thinly albo-strigose; leaflets laxly 4-6-jugate (often alternate), linear-oblong or sublanceolate, obtuse or acute, glabrous above, strigose beneath; stipules lanceolate; peduncles longer than the leaves, corymbo-racemose near the summit; pedicels not exceeding the albo-puberulous calyx; legumes glabrous, inflated, oval-oblong, acute at each end, not very unequal sided.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Distribution

Lessertia physodes world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502672-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212650
COL ID 6Q3BH
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Synonyms

Lessertia acuminata Lessertia tumida Lessertia physodes Coluteastrum physodes
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