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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect laxly branching annual 0.2‒1 m tall; stem slender, appressed puberulous. Leaves 1-foliolate, becoming narrow higher up the stem. Racemes 5‒25 cm long, laxly many-flowered, with a few other flowers developing in the axils lower down the stem. Pod sessile, ovoid-globose, 2-seeded. |
| Type location: |
DRC, Katanga |
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| Flowering time: | Mar - Apr |
| Worldwide distribution: | FZ distribution: Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique; also D.R. Congo (Katanga) |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 156. Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 219 - 220. Polhill, R.M. (2003). Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 219 - 220. |