Otholobium carneum (Kuntze) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

A shrub 12-15 metres high. Stems leafy, reddish pubescent, at length becoming glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, stipulate, sub-sessile; leaflets up to 1.5 cm long and 7 mm broad, oblong to cuneate-oblong, obtuse, pellucid-dotted, recurved mucronate, glabrous. Stipules about 2 mm long, deltoid. Flowers axillary, 2-3 together. Pedicels very short. Calyx-tube 2-3.5 mm., 5-6 mm in diameter, veined, hirsute, glandular: lobes linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or ovate, acute, glandular, ciliate, hirsute, glabrous on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 2-3.5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad; lowest lobe 3-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad. Vexillum 6-7 mm long, 5-6 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 1-2 mm long; alae 5.5-7 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, with a liner claw 2.5-3 mm long; carina 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 3-4 mm long. Ovary glabrous or very slightly pilose: style 2-4 mm long, glabrous.
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Perennial shrublet, up to 0.2 m high; stems slender with reddish brown pubescence on younger parts. Leaves trifoliolate, subsessile. Leaflets narrow-oblong or cuneate-oblong, recurved mucronate, prominently nigro-punctate in dried specimens. Stipules deltoid and membranous. Inflorescence axillary. Flowers 2 or 3 together, white. Calyx pale, netted with dark veins; lobes ciliate. Flowering time Oct., Nov.
Rare, slender shrublet. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-oblanceolate; stipules glabrous, margins ciliate. Flowers white, calyx thinly hairy, lowest sepal larger, broadly ovate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Otholobium carneum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942561-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212306
COL ID 4B2GS
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Synonyms

Otholobium carneum Lotodes carnea Psoralea carnea