Otholobium trianthum (E.Mey.) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

A slender shrub up to 1.2 m [as '4 ft.'] Stems erect, tomentulose. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate, stipulate; petioles about 6 mm long; leaflets 0.5-2.5 cm long, up to 6 mm broad, linear, spathulate, recurved mucronate, thick, glabrous, nigro-punctate. Stipules about 2.5 mm long, acuminate. Flowers axillary, crowded. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm long. Calyx-tube 2 mm long, 4-6 mm in diameter, pubescent, grandular; lobes lanceolate, pubescent, pilose on the inner surface; upper and lateral lobes 1-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad. Vexillum 4-8 mm long, 4-6.5 mm broad, obovate, with a linear claw 1.5-2 cm long; alae 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, with a linear claw 2-3 mm long; carina 2.5-3 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, with a linear claw 2.5-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous or thinly pilose; style 3-4 mm long, filiform.
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An erect or diffuse shrub, 60 cm to 1 m high, with densely pubescent spreading branches. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate: leaflets linear-spathulate, recurved-mucronate, glabrescent, the medial 2-2.5 cm long, the lateral rather shorter. Stipules small, acuminate. Flowers pink, in 3-to 6-flowered axillary and terminal racemules, the lower shortly pedunculate. Calyx sparsely pubescent, 6 mm long, the deltoid teeth shorter than the tube. Standard 9 mm long, longer, than the purple-tipped keel: blade roundish.
Slender shrub to 2 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-oblanceolate, glabrescent; stipules glandular. Flowers pale mauve, calyx adpressed-hairy and glandular, accrescent.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Otholobium trianthum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942581-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212358
COL ID 4B2HM
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Synonyms

Otholobium trianthum Psoralea triantha Lotodes trianthum