Macrotyloma rupestre (welw. ex Baker) Verdc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Macrotyloma

Characteristics

Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets 28–70 × 12–30 mm, oblong to oblong-elliptic or obovate, rounded at the apex, apiculate, rounded to slightly cordate at the base, densely appressed silvery sericeous to appressed pilose on both surfaces; petiole 2–10.5 cm long; rhachis 2–16 mm long; petiolules 1–2 mm long; stipules 5–10 × 2.5–4 mm long, narrowly ovate, striate; stipels 5–8 mm long, linear-lanceolate or filiform.
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Standard yellow tinged pink, greenish-cream or pink, 1.2–2 × 1–1.5 cm, broadly elliptic, emarginate or not at the apex, yellow, with awl-shaped appendages 4–6 mm long; wings and keel 10–13 × c. 3 mm.
Flowers axillary, solitary, in pairs or in 3-flowered fascicles; peduncles and pedicels 2–5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles 4–5 mm long, lanceolate, silvery sericeous.
Calyx densely appressed silvery sericeous; tube 2–4 mm long; lobes 3–6 mm long, triangular, acuminate, the upper pair fused along almost all of their length.
Prostrate herb up to 1 m long, from a perennial woody rootstock; juvenile stems sometimes flowering before leaves appear.
Pod 5–7 cm × 6–7 mm, linear-oblong, compressed, pubescent, glabrescent, 4–6-seeded.
Stems annual, slender, densely appressed to sparsely spreading silvery pilose.
Ovary 6–7 mm long, appressed sericeous.
Seeds unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Macrotyloma rupestre world distribution map, present in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:505871-1
WFO ID wfo-0000182135
COL ID 3XCPG
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Synonyms

Macrotyloma rupestre Dolichos rupestris Dolichos longistipellatus Macrotyloma kasaiense Dolichos kasaiensis Dolichos rupestris var. gossweileri