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Otholobium argenteum (Thunb.) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

Plant a slender shrub. Stems diffuse or sub-erect, leafy, clothed with adpressed whitish pubescence. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles 2-4 mm long; leaflets 6-8 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, obovate, recurved-mucronate, minutely pellucid-dotted, thinly canescent on both surfaces. Flowers in threes, axillary or in an interrupted terminal pedunculate raceme. Bracts minute. Calyx-tube silky canescent; lobes lanceolate, two uppermost semi-connate.
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Slender, woody shrublet, up to 1 m tall, much branched from base, branches with flattened pustules. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, folded, densely silky, apex shortly pointed. Flowers in threes, in small lax racemes, white with dark-tipped keel, calyx silvery silky. Pod unknown.
Sprawling resprouting subshrub to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, densely grey-hairy; stipules densely hairy and glandular below. Flowers white to pale yellow, calyx silvery silky.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Images

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Distribution

Otholobium argenteum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942556-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212293
COL ID 4B2GH
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Synonyms

Otholobium argenteum Psoralea argentea Psoralea albicans Lotodes argentea
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