Otholobium rotundifolium (L.F.) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

A suffruticose about 3 metres high. Stems ascending, leafy, densely hispid, becoming glabrous when older. Leaves unifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate, 0.9-2.7 cm broad, 0.9-4 cm long, ovate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse or acute, mucronulate, sparsely glandular, with reticulate veining, glabrous; petioles up to 5 mm long. Stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, equalling or exceeding the petiole, lanceolate, subulate veined, glabrous, glandular. Inflorescence spicate, many-flowered. Peduncles terminal and axillary, 4-6 mm long, hairy. Flowers on short pedicels, subtended by a small bract. Calyx-tube 3 mm long, 7 mm in diameter, densely hirsute with long white hairs, glands translucent; lobes lanceolate-ovate, long hirsute, ciliate, thinly pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 6-7 mm long, up to 2 mm broad; lowest lobe 1.1 cm long, 3 mm broad. Vexillum about 1 cm long and 5 mm broad, obovate, with a channelled claw 2 mm long; alae 8 mm long, 2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 3.5 mm long; carina 5.5 mm long, 2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 4 mm long. Ovary hispid; style 4 mm long. Pod membraneous, about 6 mm long and 5 mm broad, hispid.
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Resprouting subshrub to 20 cm. Leaves 1-foliolate, rhomboid-obovate; stipules glabrous. Flowers pale lilac to white, calyx silky white-hairy 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 rotundifolium world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942575-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212341
COL ID 4B2HB
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Synonyms

Otholobium rotundifolium Psoralea rotundifolia Lotodes rotundifolia