Fabaceae
Microcharis

Microcharis welwitschii (Baker) Schrire

First published in Bothalia 22: 167 (1992)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical Africa. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian grassland, Sudanian grasslands, Lake Victoria regional transition zone; grasslands
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

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
[AERP]

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

Morphology General Habit
A delicate annual up to 40 cm. tall, with a sparse indumentum of stiff spreading biramous hairs.
Morphology Leaves
Stipules narrowly triangular-subulate, up to 5 mm. long; leaf-rhachis up to 15 mm. long, including a petiole of ± 5 mm., which is present even in the basal 1-foliolate leaves, prolonged 1–3 mm. beyond the lateral leaflets; leaflets 1–5, linear-lanceolate or oblong, up to 20 mm. long and 7 mm. wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Raceme up to 15-flowered, up to 12 cm. long; bracts linear, 1–1.5 mm. long; pedicels very slender, up to 5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1.5–3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 2–2.5 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod 8–25 mm. long, ±1.6 mm. wide, sparsely strigose or almost glabrous, 4–17-seeded.
[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

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • 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