Aeschynomene paucifolia Vogel
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Authority
Rudd, Velva E. 1955. The American species of Aeschynomene. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 32: 1-172.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type locality: "Ad S. Antonio do Monte," Minas Gerais, Brazil. Type collected by Sellow, cited below.
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Description
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Description - Suffrutesccnt perennial with numerous slender shoots arising from a woody root; stems to about 5 dm. high, appressed-pubescent when young, glabrate with age; stipules lanceolate, attenuate, about 3-5 mm. long, pubescent, glabrate; leaves 1-10 cm. long, 30-60-foliolate, the rachis somewhat pubescent; leaflets about 5 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, semicordate, acute, the costa marginal, the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface appressed-pubescent to glabrate; inflorescences terminal or axillary, the floral axes strigillose and also somewhat hispidulous, the bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, pubescent, 1-2 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, entire or glandular-ciliate; flowers 10-12 mm. long; calyx 3-4 mm. long, pubescent, ciliate; petals drying to a chocolate brown color; standard commonly 10 mm. long, the claw 2 mm. long, the blade orbiculate, about 8 mm. in diameter, retuse; wings and keel about as long as the standard, the wing blades about 4 mm. wide, the keel blades about 2.5 mm. wide; stamens 10 mm. long; fruit 2-5-articulate, subsessile, the stipe about 2 mm. long, or less, although sometimes seeming to be longer due to abortion of the basal ovules and failure of the lower articles to attain normal width, the normal articles about 6.5 mm. long and 6 mm. wide, pilose; mature seeds not seen.