Fabaceae
Chamaecrista

Chamaecrista ghesquiereana (Brenan) Lock

First published in Kew Bull. 43: 336 (1988)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is DR Congo, Uganda, Tanzania. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

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
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Prostrate perennial herb.
Morphology Stem
Stems radiating from the thickened rootstock, themselves becoming woody below, up to 12–40 cm. long, puberulous or shortly pubescent with short curved hairs, and also with ± numerous longer spreading ones.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves narrowly oblong to linear-oblong, 1.2–3.5(–4) cm. long, ± 0.5–0.8(–1.3) cm. wide; gland at or near top of petiole, sessile, circular or elliptic, flattened or convex on upper side, 0.25–1 mm. long, 0.25–0.6 mm. wide, brown to blackish-purple when dry, said to be yellowish when living; rhachis eglandular, channelled but not crenate-crested along upper side; leaflets sessile, in 6–28 pairs, obliquely oblong, somewhat falcate above, 2.5–5(–8) mm. long, 0.5–1 (–1.5) mm. wide, acute and mucronate, glabrous on upper surface, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs on lower, ciliate on margins; midrib somewhat excentric (towards anticous margin); lateral nerves slightly raised beneath, those on anticous side of midrib few and obscure or absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences axillary or supra-axillary, 1–2-flowered; pedicels 0.9–1.5 cm. long, clothed like the stem.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals pale yellow, 6.5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods 2–3.8 cm. long, 3.5–4 mm. wide, pubescent with curved but not appressed hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds brown, ± rhombic, 2–2.5 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide.
Figures
Fig. 10/46, p. 57.
Habitat
Upland grassland; 1650–2590 m.
Distribution
T7 U2
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0