Listia bainesii (Baker) B.-e.van Wyk & Boatwr.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Listia

Characteristics

Stem under a foot long, slender, procumbent, herbaceous, irregularly branched, quite glabrous. Stipules 2-2.5 lines long, cordate-ovate acuminate, unequal-sided. Petioles 1/4 in. glabrous. Leaflets 3, sessile, linear, the central one 1/2-5/8 in. long, 1/8 in. broad, base narrowed, point slightly rounded mucronate, glabrous. Flowers in dense umbellate heads of 8-10 each on leaf-opposed glabrous peduncles an inch long. Bracts inconspicuous. Calyx subsessile, infundibuliform, 1/8 in. deep, slightly silky, teeth very short, subdeltoid. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx, the keel and standard subequal, the wings small and shorter. Pod not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.8
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses animal food fodder forage
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 14 - 32
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Listia bainesii world distribution map, present in Australia, Botswana, China, Fiji, Kenya, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77110601-1
WFO ID wfo-0000749699
COL ID 3W7NH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lotononis bainesii Amphinomia bainesii Listia bainesii Lotononis bainesii var. pottiae