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Fabaceae - Mimosoideae - Mimoseae - Xerocladia Harv.

Description:

  • Shrublets with many rigid, somewhat zigzag branches, with recurved, spinescent stipules
  • Leaves few, small, bipinnate, with pinnae 1-2-jugate; leaflets small, few-jugate
  • Flowers bisexual, sessile, in axillary, shortly pedunculate heads
  • Calyx campanulate, with 5 lobes longer than tube
  • Petals 5, valvate, linear, free almost to base
  • Stamens 10, free, 5 opposite petals short, 5 alternating with petals longer but scarcely exceeding petals; anthers with minute, terminal, deciduous gland apically
  • Ovary subsessile, 1(2)-ovuled, villous; style filiform, somewhat thickened above, with truncate stigma
  • Pod broadly falcate-ovate or semiorbicular, plano-compressed, 1-seeded, with lower suture arched and winged
  • Seed compressed-ovoid, smooth

Nomenclature:

  • Xerocladia Harv.
    • Harvey: 278 (1862)
    • Ross: 130 (1975)
    • Schreiber: 19 (1967)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Xerocladia viridiramis (Burch.) Taub. (= X. zeyheri Harv.), Namibia and Namaqualand (Northern Cape)

References:

  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Leguminosae. Flora capensis 2
  • ROSS, J.H. 1975. Fabaceae. Mimosoideae. Flora of southern Africa 16,1
  • SCHREIBER, A. 1967. Caesalpiniaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 59

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