Adenodolichos exellii Torre

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: low confidence

Leguminosae, B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt. Flora Zambesiaca 3:5. 2001

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences axillary and terminal, branched at the base, the axillary ones shorter than the leaves, [5] 7–17 cm long, the terminal ones 30 cm long or more; pedicels 5–8 mm long; bracts 5 [7] × 1.5 [5] mm, lanceolate; bracteoles 6 mm long, linear; all parts fulvous pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx tube 4 mm long; lowest lobe 12 × 3 mm, the rest 7.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm, lanceolate, the upper pair joined for just over half their length.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers violet-red or purple; standard [16 × 13], c. 12 mm in diameter, round, auriculate at the base and with 2 close calli near the base; claw 2 mm long, channelled; wings (10)13 mm long including the 3.8 mm long claw, the spur narrow, almost as long as the claw, blade rounded, 5 mm wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 5.5 × 1.2–1.6 cm, oblanceolate-falcate [not known].

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Ripe seeds not seen.

Morphology General Habit

Subshrub 0.9 [2.5]* m tall; stems ridged, shortly ferruginous pubescent.

Morphology Leaves Leaflets

Leaflets 3, 9–17 × [5] 8–12 cm, the terminal broadly elliptic or slightly rhombic-elliptic, the laterals slightly oblique, rounded to acute at the apex, truncate to subcordate at the base, sparsely appressed pubescent on upper surface, pubescent and glandular beneath, the venation strongly raised and reticulate beneath; petiole [3] 5.5–10 cm long; rhachis 1.8–4.5 cm long; petiolules 5–10 mm long; stipules [not seen] 11 × 1.5 mm, lanceolate.