Aeschynomene marginata Benth.

• Authority

  Rudd, Velva E. 1955. The American species of Aeschynomene. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 32: 1-172.

• Family

  Fabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Aeschynomene marginata Benth.

• Description

  
  Deprecated: mb_convert_encoding(): Handling HTML entities via mbstring is deprecated; use htmlspecialchars, htmlentities, or mb_encode_numericentity/mb_decode_numericentity instead in /home/emu/nybgweb/www-dev/htdocs/science-dev/wp-content/themes/nybgscience/lib/VHMonographsDetails.php on line 179
  

  Description - Stem erect, suffrutescent, about 1 m. high, appressed-pubescent, glabrate; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 5-6 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide at base; subglabrous; leaves 3-5 cm. long, 20-50-foliolate; leaflets oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, 5-15 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, the upper surface subglabrous, the lower surface sparsely appressedpubescent, the costa but slightly excentric, the secondary veins essentially pinnate; inflorescences terminal or axillary, few-flowered, the floral axes subglabrous, with a few glandular hairs; bracts ovateflabelliform, obtuse, about 1 mm. long, the bracteoles subacute, 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers 6-12 mm. long; calyx 3-5 mm. long; standard 6-12 mm. long, the claw 1.5-2 mm. long, the blade suborbiculate, retuse, about 5-10 mm. in diameter; wings and keel about as long as the standard, the wing blades about 2 mm. wide, the keel blades about 1.5 mm. wide; stamens 7-12 mm. long; fruit 3-5-articulate, the stipe glabrous, 1-5 mm. long, longest when the lower ovules abort, the articles semi-orbiculate, 5-6 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, torose, foveolate when fully mature, sparsely appressed-pubescent; seeds about 4 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, brown.