Phaseolus tuerckheimii Donn.Sm.

cent above and beneath, the veins elevated beneath, the minor venation some-times drying reticulate; petiolules ca. 3 mm long, tomentose; petioles mostly shorter than the terminal leaflets, densely puberulent; stipels conspicuous; 2-3 mm long. Inflorescences mostly elongate pseudoracemes to 30 cm long, the basal portion devoid of flowers, the peduncle basally stout, narrowing and becoming more densely pubescent upwards; bracts subfoliaceous, linear to broadly ovate, to 7 mm long, sericeous; bracteoles linear, glabrate, caducous, ca. 1 mm long; pedicels slender, ca. 10 mm long with scattered long hairs. Flowers white to bright violet or purplish; calyx sericeous overall, ca. 4 mm long, the tube ca. 3 mm long drying with umbonate or wing-like longitudinal enations, the limb flaring somewhat, the teeth deltoid, ca. 3 mm long, the uppermost longest, acute; stan-dard 1.5 cm long, the keel convolute, spiralled. Legumes oblong, compressed, slightly turgid around the seeds, ca. 4 cm long, densely tawny hirsute; seeds ca. 4.