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Pseudovigna (Harms) Verdc.

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Perennial prostrate or climbing herb from a woody rootstock. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules and stipels present. Flowers in few-flowered axillary falsely racemose inflorescences. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair oflobes united for just under half their length. Corolla medium-sized; standard obovate, auriculate, but without appendages; wings oblanceolate; keel neither beaked nor incurved. Vexillary stamen free; anthers ± uniform. Ovary oblong, 3-ovuled; style tenuous and flattened below, bent and then cylindrical (but nowhere thickened) above, glabrous save where it merges into the ovary; stigma absolutely terminal, penicillate. Pods oblong, bristly, septate. Seeds oblong-reniform, granular; rim-aril little developed but a papery funicle-remnant persistent.
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Ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, oblong, hairy, 3-ovuled; style glabrous, slender, geniculate, flattened proximal to the bend, terete distally; stigma terminal, fringed with hairs.
Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets lobed, with dense appressed silvery hairs on the undersurface; stipules and stipels present.
Corolla glabrous; petals clawed; standard obovate to broadly obovate, auriculate, without appendages.
Pod oblong, compressed, septate, dehiscent, covered in dark brown hairs, 1–3-seeded.
Seeds black, oblong to reniform; aril poorly developed, funicle remnant persistent.
Calyx 5-lobed, the upper pair partly connate, covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.
Vexillary stamen free or joined to the others at base; anthers ± uniform.
Inflorescences 2–8-flowered axillary pseudoracemes.
Stems densely covered in ferruginous hispid hairs.
Trailing or climbing perennial herbs.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23361-1
WFO ID wfo-4000031739
COL ID 7422
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Synonyms

Pseudovigna

Lower taxons

Pseudovigna sulaensis Pseudovigna argentea Pseudovigna puerarioides
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