Lotononis platycarpa
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Amphinomia dichotoma Boiss. Amphinomia dinteri (Schinz) A.Schreib. Amphinomia lotoidea (Delile) Maire Amphinomia platycarpa (Viv.) Cufod. Amphinomia steingroeveriana (Schinz) A.Schreib. Capnitis clandestina E.Mey. Capnitis porrecta E.Mey. Leobordea abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich. Leobordea lotoidea Delile Leobordea persica Jaub. & Spach Lotononis abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Kotschy Lotononis carinalis Harv. fide B.-E.van Wyk in Contrib. Bolus Herb. 14 (1991) Lotononis clandestina (E.Mey.) Benth. Lotononis clandestina (E.Mey.) Benth. var. steingroeveriana Schinz Lotononis dichotoma (Delile) Boiss. Lotononis dinteri Schinz Lotononis leobordea Benth. fide B.-E.van Wyk in Contrib. Bolus Herb. 14 (1991) Lotononis lotoidea (Delile) Batt. Lotononis lotoidea Delile Lotononis persica (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss. Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm. var. abyssinica (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Pic.Serm. Lotononis porrecta (E.Mey.) Benth. Lotononis sphaerocarpa Boiss. Lotononis steingroeveriana (Schinz) Dummer Lotus dichotomus Delile ex Walp. Lotus platycarpos Viv. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Annual, with a very short stem, soon developing numerous slender radiating prostrate branches up to 5–50 cm long, pilose, exceptionally perennating with other stems from the top of an undivided taproot. Leaves opposite on flowering shoots, 3-foliolate; leaflets 4–8(20) x 1.5–3(4) mm, oblanceolate, slightly apiculate, glabrous to pilose above, pilose beneath; petiole approx. as long as the leaflets or a little shorter; stipules single at a node, 2–4 mm long, linear to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate. Flowers 1–several clustered at the nodes, sessile; bracts 1–2.5 mm long, linear; bracteoles absent. Calyx 3.5–4.5(6) mm long, pilose; upper and lateral lobes joined slightly higher, 1.5–2.5(3) mm long, subulate. Standard pale yellow, shorter than the keel, narrowly elliptic-ovate, extensively pubescent outside; wings distinctly shorter than the keel; keel 6–7(9) mm long, narrow, slightly upcurved to the bluntly pointed reddish tip, extensively pubescent. Pods 4–7(9) x 1.5–2.5 mm, narrowly oblong, often somewhat tapered to the base, slightly downcurved at the tip, pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, c. 10-seeded. Seeds 1–1.5 mm long, oblique-cordiform, smooth, brown. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 20 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
