Plant descriptions ²

Leaves digitately trifoliolate, smaller on the side shoots than on main stems; Leaflets ovate to elliptic, the lateral leaflets asymmetrical, 20 - 90 (-120) x 12 - 40 mm, glabrous to thinly pubescent above and beneath, usually with a tuft of whitish hairs on either side of the base of the midvein beneath, mid green and matt above, paler beneath. Calyx (3-) 5 mm long, saucer-shaped at maturity, flat with 4 broad, spreading lobes giving a square shape, the upper lobe notched, pubescent. Pods sessile, cylindrical, 40 - 100 x 12 - 17 mm, blunt and rounded apically with a very small, oblique beak, silvery with a dense, softly velvety pubescence, splitting into 2 spiralling valves.

Elevation ²

50 - 800 m

Similar species ²

Syn. Disynstemon madagascariense ; Lonchocarpus paullinioides

Référence ²

David Du Puy & al. 2002.- The Leguminosae of Madagascar. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) MBG, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://images.mobot.org/tropicosthumbnails/TropicosImages2/130/13058739_001.jpg
2. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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