Otholobium flexuosum C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

Dense, much-branched shrub, up to 2.5 m tall. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets broadly obovate, partly folded, shiny and glandular above, sparsely silky below, apex recurved, shortly pointed. Flowers in threes, in lax, zigzagged, terminal racemes, white, calyx hairs dark. Pod ovoid, silky, papery.
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Dense shrub to 2.5 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets obovate, bluish green, sparsely silky beneath; stipules caducous. Inflorescences zigzag. flowers white, calyx sparsely silky and glandular.
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Mature height (meter) 2.5
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Distribution

Otholobium flexuosum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:958566-1
WFO ID wfo-0001263089
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Synonyms

Otholobium flexuosum