Otholobium venustum (Eckl. & Zeyh.) C.H.Stirt.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Otholobium

Characteristics

A. suffruticose. Stems flexuous, appressedly pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate, stipulate, sub-sessile; leaflets 2.5 cm long. 6-7 mm broad, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, pellucid-dotted, appressedly puberulent. Stipules subulate. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, spicate, cylindric. Peduncle and spike up to 4 cm long. Bracts subtending flowers half as long as the calyx. Calyx-tube 6 cm long, silky canescent, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, glandular: lowest lobe longest, nearly equalling the petals.
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Sprawling or trailing shrub to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic-oblanceolate, glabrescent; stipules finely hairy. Flowers in lax racemes, white to pale mauve, calyx black-silky.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Soil texture 5-6
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Images

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Distribution

Otholobium venustum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:942583-1
WFO ID wfo-0000212362
COL ID 4B2HQ
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Synonyms

Otholobium venustum Psoralea venusta Lotodes venusta