Plant descriptions ¹

Leaves few, small and early-caducous, with a single pair of leaflets, produced in the axils along the margins of the cladodes; Leaflets sessile on the pedicel, oblong or obovate to subcircular, 6 - 12 x 3.5 - 9 (-12) mm, cuneate at the base, rounded apically, glabrous above. Flowers 4 - 5 mm long; calyx bell-shaped, c. 3 mm long, densely covered in dark brown scales, with 5 triangular, obtuse teeth c. 0.5 mm long; Petaloid staminodes 5, narrow, linear-obovate, c. 4 x 0.75 mm. Pod shortly stipilate, obliquely subcircular to oblong-discoid, flattened, (14-) 17 - 22 x (11-) 13 - 16 mm, apiculate apically.

Elevation ¹

Up to 300 m

Référence ¹

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

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• 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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