Otholobium saxosum C.H.Stirt. & Muasya

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

A small semi-erect to ascending shrublet up to 20 cm tall. Branchlets slender, pilose, pustulate. Leaves digitately trifoliolate, petiolate. Leaflets unequal; terminal leaflet (8-)12-15 x 4-7 mm, obovate; laterals smaller, asymmetrical, upper margin straight, lower convex, secondary veins weak, apex acute to obtuse, mucro straight, sparsely pilose in younger leaves becoming glabrescent, glands impressed, more apparent on the upper surface; petioles < 2 mm, petiolules 1 mm. Stipules 2-3 mm long, subulate, apex attenuate, striate, glabrous, clasping. Inflorescences axillary in the upper axils of short < 30 mm long seasonal shoots, congested, each comprised of a triplet of shortly pedicellate flowers and subtended by an oblanceolate to flabellate, multi-veined, 3-3.5 mm long bract, peduncle < 2 mm long, each flower subtended by 1 or 2 narrowly lanceolate bracts. Flowers 9-10 mm long, white, pedicels 2 mm long. Calyx shorter than the corolla; lobes unequal, veins prominent, carinal lobe longest, 8 x 1.8-2 mm, broader than the equal lateral and vexillary lobes, the latter fused for 1 mm above the 2-2.5 mm long tube; teeth lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, margins ciliate; vexillary teeth not fused above the tube; glands scattered, small, mostly on the teeth. Standard 9 x 6 mm, white with a narrow violet central flash, elliptic, auriculate, claw 2 mm long. Wing petals 9 x 2-2.5 mm, white, claw 2 mm long, auriculate; sculpturing present, upper basal, comprised of 10-12 transcostal lamellae. Keel petals shorter than and fused to wing petals in the auricular region, 6 x 2 mm, claw 2 mm long. Androecium 5-5.5 mm long, vexillary stamen free, sheath split adaxially. Pistil 5 mm long; ovary 1-1.3 mm long, sparsely covered in multi-celled glands; gynophore 0.4 mm long; style glabrous, entasis well-developed at point of flexure, height of curvature 1.5 mm, stigma capitate. Fruits and seeds unknown.
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Shrublet with slender branches to 20 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate, warty, leaflets obovate, glabrescent; stipules glabrous. Flowers white, calyx hairy, lowest sepal larger.
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Images

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Distribution

Otholobium saxosum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77152997-1
WFO ID wfo-0001344787
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Synonyms

Otholobium saxosum