Cullen tomentosum
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Cullen tomentosum Thunb. J.W. Grimes |
| Location: | Along M47 (2316DC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Blouklawer |
| English common name(s): | Stink clover, wild lucerne |
| Synonym(s): | Trigonella tomentosa Thunb. Cullen obtusifolium (DC.) C.H.Stirt. Psoralea obtusifolia DC. (1825) |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Herb up to 60 cm tall, often mat- or cushion-forming, white strigose or grey hairy but eventually ± glabrous; branches many, pale, up to 75 cm long (up to 9 m fide Forbes), widely spreading prostrate to ascending from a much branched rootstock. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets 3–30× 2–20 mm, obovate or elliptic, obtuse at the apex, plicate, with margin slightly dentate to lobulate-crenate, glandular, thinly grey pubescent; petioles 0.5–7 cm long; stipules 2.5–3.5 × 1.25–2 mm, triangular to ovate, ciliate and grey pubescent. Inflorescences spicate or subcapitate with 3–8 flowers; peduncle 5–28 mm long; rhachis 3–27 mm long with 1–6 nodes; pedicels very short. Calyx tube 1.5–3 mm long; lobes unequal, lanceolate to ovate, ciliate, hairy outside, pilose inside, the upper 1–2 × 0.5–1 mm, the lowest, 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm. Corolla white and blue or pink; standard 3–5(7) × 3–4.5 mm with claw 1–2 mm long, ± obovate; wings 3–4.5 × 1–2 mm, with a linear claw 1.5–4 mm long; keel 2–3 × 1.5 mm with linear claw 2–2.5 mm long. Fruit 3.8–5 × 2.5–3 × 1.75–2.5 mm, oblong-reniform, densely white hairy and glandular. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) Perennial herb to 0.7 m tall, erect (when a weed in cultivated land) but often procumbent or prostrate, mat- or cushion-forming, white strigose or grey hairy, sometimes glabrous, nearly eglandular; (from APD website) |
| 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: | 09 Apr 2012 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/640 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
