Otholobium bowieanum (Harv.) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

Plant suffruticose. Stems slender, 6 or more metres long, diffuse, branching, puberulous, Leaves trifoliolate, shortly petiolate, stipulate; petioles 2 mm long, leaflets 2-2.5 cm long, 6-7.5 mm broad, cuneate-obovate, recurved-mucronate, pellucid-dotted, ciliate, laxly hispid when young, becoming glabrous. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, racemose. Pedicels 2-3 together, equalling the calyx. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx-tube pale, sub-glabrous; lobes narrow-lanceolate; lowest lobe longest; calyx segments each marked with three purple striae.
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Sprawling, resprouting subshrub to 50 cm. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, shiny green, leaflets oblanceolate, glabrescent; stipules glabrous, brown. Flowers white, calyx ciliate on margins and glandular, lowest sepal larger.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Images

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Distribution

Otholobium bowieanum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942558-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212298
COL ID 4B2GK
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Synonyms

Otholobium bowieanum Psoralea bowieana Lotodes bowieana