Chamaecrista hildebrandtii (Vatke) Lock

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation

Not Threatened

Ecology

Africa: Somalia-Masai wooded grasslands., Somalia-Masai grasslands

Morphology General Habit

Perennial, Not climbing, Herb

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: confident

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

Morphology General Habit

Perennial herb, with thick woody rootstock.

Morphology Stem

Stems prostrate or sometimes erect, ± 3–60 cm. long, usually ± densely pubescent, hairs either long and spreading, up to 1–2 mm. long, or shorter and crisped; stems rarely sparsely pubescent or (not so far in Flora area) puberulous.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, (1–)1.5–6.5 cm. long, mostly 1–2.5(–3) cm. wide; gland at or near top of petiole, flattened or shallowly cup-shaped, raised on a distinct stalk 0.3–0.7 mm. long; rhachis without glands or rarely with sessile or subsessile ones between the paired leaflets, channelled but not crenate-crested along upper side; leaflets sessile, usually in 4–13(–14) pairs, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, uppermost often somewhat obovate, straight or slightly falcate, mostly (4–)5–15(–18) mm. long, (1.25–)1.5–5.5(–7) mm. wide, rounded or obtuse and mucronate at apex, occasionally subacute, usually ± densely pubescent on both surfaces, rarely sparingly pubescent to glabrous; midrib usually distinctly excentric (sometimes slightly so) and nearer anticous margin, but giving off on both sides ± numerous prominulous or prominent lateral nerves which are unbranched or branch normally only near margins.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences 1–4-flowered; pedicels (0.7–)1–3 cm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals acute.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals yellow, 4–12 mm. long, 3.5–10 mm. wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Pods 2.5–5.2 cm. long, (3.5–)4–5 mm. wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds brown to blackish, ± 2.2–3 mm. long and 2.5–2.75 mm. wide, not areolate.

Figures

Fig. 10/30, p. 57.

Habitat

Wooded grassland and grassland; 760–2130 m.

Distribution

K1 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 T1 T2 T3 U2 U4