Hoffmannseggia lactea
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Top of leaves
03 May 2008
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Underside of leaves
03 May 2008
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Leaves
05 Mar 2009
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Flowers
05 Mar 2009
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Flowers
05 Mar 2009
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Seed pods
04 Apr 2009
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Full name: | Hoffmannseggia lactea (Schinz) Schinz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Hoffmannseggia pearsonii E.Phillips Hoffmannseggia sandersonii (Harv.) Engl. var. lactea Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Low much-branched shrub up to 50 cm high. Stems densely appressed-pubescent with whitish hairs, plumose setae very few or absent; dark glands present and very conspicuous on stems, leaves, inflorescences, calyces and pods. Stipules up to 6 x 2 mm, laciniate, often rigid and persistent. Leaves: petiole and rhachis glabrous to appressed-or spreading-pubescent, setae, if present, not plumose; petiole 0.3-2.3 cm long, often persisting as a rigid subspine after the fall of the rest of the leaf; rhachis (excluding terminal pinna) 0.3-3.8 cm long; pinnae (1)2-5 pairs; rhachides of lateral pinnae (0.3)0.6-1.8 cm long, with 3-7 pairs of leaflets; rhachides of terminal pinna 0.4-2.4 cm long, with 4-6 pairs of leaflets; leaflets 3-8 x 1-3 mm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, glabrous. Inflorescence (including peduncle) up to 21 cm long; pedicels up to 3 mm long in flower; bracts up to 5 x 2 mm, laciniate, deciduous before the buds open. Calyx with a very short tube, lobes 5, unequal, the lower lobe up to 7 x 3 mm, the up ... (from JSTOR website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
