Rhynchosia wildii Verdc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Rhynchosia

Characteristics

Standard yellow, closely striate with blackish-purple, 22 × 12 mm (including claw), auricled at the base, glabrous; claw 5 mm long, deeply grooved, the groove extending on to the base of the standard for 4 mm and with prominent edges; wings yellow, narrowly oblong, auricled at the base; keel greenish, slightly striated with blackish-purple; blade 13 × 8 mm, semicircular-falcate; claw 5 mm long.
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Leaflets 3, grey-green, 0.9–3 × 0.6–2 cm, elliptic, rhombic or obovate, shortly mucronate from a rounded apex, rounded to faintly subcordate at the base, shortly pubescent and with longer tubercular based hairs but surface not at all obscured; venation strongly raised and reticulate beneath; petiole 7.5–20 mm long; rhachis 3.5–10 mm long; stipules 2.5 × 2 mm, ovate.
Inflorescences terminal and from upper axils, 3–7 cm long with dense pubescence and yellow tubercular based hairs; peduncle c. 10 mm long; pedicels c. 1 mm long; bracts 8 × 4–5.5 mm, elliptic, with similar hairs to rhachis.
Straggling much-branched aromatic sticky shrub 0.8–1.2 m tall; young branches densely pubescent and with numerous yellow tubercular based hairs; older stems pale grey, glabrescent, minutely fissured.
Calyx with similar hairs; tube 5 mm long; 3 lower teeth subequal with lowest slightly the longest, up to 10 mm long; 2 upper teeth divergent 8 mm long, joined for 3 mm.
Pods 2.5 × 1 cm, falcate, narrowed at the base, finely pubescent and with long tubercular based hairs.
Seeds (immature) reddish-brown, 5.5 × 4.5 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.8 - 1.2
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1013783-1
WFO ID wfo-0000405976
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Synonyms

Rhynchosia wildii