- Family:
- Fabaceae Lindl.
Macrotyloma tenuiflorum (Micheli) Verdc.
[ILDIS]
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Conservation
- Not Threatened
- Ecology
- Africa: Sudanian wooded grassland, Lake Victoria regional mosaic; wooded grassland, Zambezian wooded grassland
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Morphology General Habit
- Completely prostrate herb, with stems up to 0·8 m. long from a woody rootstock.
- Morphology Stem
- Stems slender, densely covered with spreading to somewhat adpressed pale hairs, often rooting at the nodes.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaflets 3, broadly elliptic, round or obovate, the laterals somewhat oblique, 1–4·5 cm. long, 0·7–3·5 cm. wide, emarginate or rounded but mucronate at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, adpressed pubescent on both surfaces and with a fringe of adpressed white hairs noticeable around the margin, often with a purplish tinge due to resin dots and the main nerves margined with pale yellowish above; petiole 0·4–1·3 cm. long, channelled, pubescent; rhachis mostly obsolete; petiolules 1–1·5 mm. long; stipules oblong-elliptic, 2–3 mm. long, 1–1·5 mm. wide, persistent, mostly dark brownish-purple with pale nerves.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers axillary, solitary or paired; peduncles 0–2 cm. long (probably leafless side shoots); pedicels 1–2 mm. long; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 1–2 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx sparsely pubescent; tube 1·5–2 mm. long; lobes triangular or elongate-triangular, 1–2 mm. long, lowest lobe longest, upper pair joined completely or almost so to form a lip.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Standard white or yellowish-blue, sometimes marked with reddish-purple, obovate, 0·8–1·2 cm. long, 5–7 mm. wide, emarginate; wings and keel whitish.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pods linear, 4–5·2 cm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, glabrous, apiculate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds chestnut, compressed oblong-ellipsoid, longest dimension 2·5–3 mm., shorter dimension 1·2–1·5 mm., 0·6 mm. thick; hilum central, oblong-elliptic; narrowest end of seed tipped with a translucent glandular cap (? elaiosome) not connected with the hilum.
- Habitat
- On bare stony ground in grassland and open Combretum wooded grassland; 1080 m.
- Distribution
- U2
Native to:
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre
Macrotyloma tenuiflorum (Micheli) Verdc. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Kew Bull. 24: 402 (1970)
Accepted by
- Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
- Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
- Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 2(1): 1-85. ORSTROM, Bangui.
- Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-list: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Verdc. in Kew Bulletin 24: 402 (1970).
International Legume Database and Information Service
- Gillett, J. B. et al. (1971). Papilionoideae. In: Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Milne-Redhead & Polhill
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