Liparia laevigata (L.) Thunb.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Liparia

Characteristics

A stout shrub, 60 cm to 1 m high, with ascending villous branches. Leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, villous or glabrescent. Flowers usually 4-10 in almost umbellate terminal racemes. Bracts narrow-ovate, acute. Pedicels villous, as long as or longer than the calyx. Calyx indented at the base, the teeth deltoid-ovate, acute, as long as the tube, the 2 upper partly united. Standard roundish, up to 1.4 cm long, broader than long, rather longer than the acute keel. Pod ovate-oblong, acute, slightly swollen, 2-2.5 cm long, densely hairy.
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Single-stemmed, tree-like, reseeding shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic. Flowers 4 in decussate racemes, yellow, bracts shorter than pedicel, not clasping base of calyx.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Distribution

Liparia laevigata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502816-1
WFO ID wfo-0001057964
COL ID 4MC4T
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Synonyms

Priestleya laevigata Priestleya thunbergii Liparia umbellata Liparia villosa Borbonia laevigata Liparia laevigata