PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / FABALES / FABACEAE / CAESALPINIOIDEAE / MIMOSEAE / ENTADA / OBLIQUA
Suffrutex producing at ground level annual herbaceous stems up to 30 cm high from a number of underground rhizomes; aerial stems unbranched (rarely branched after damage to the main apex), longitudinally striate, pubescent or glabrous. Leaves pubescent or glabrous: petiole 2-6 cm long; rhachis (0)1.5-9 cm long; pinnae (1)2-6 pairs; rhachillae 2-11 cm long; leaflets 4-13(21) pairs per pinna, 5.5-15 x 2-6.5 mm, very oblique, ovate to ovate-oblong, broadly truncate basally. asymmetric and attached by one corner, midrib starting in the distal corner of the leaflet-base and gradually becoming almost central in the leaflet, usually with 2-3 other prominent veins arising from the leaflet-base, midrib and lateral nerves prominent above and below, acute or distinctly mucronate apically. glabrous or sparingly pubescent on the margins. Racemes axillary, often solitary, on the lower or the apical part of the stem, 3.5-6 cm long (including the peduncle), glabrous or very sparingly pubescent. Flowers yellowish-white, on pedicels up to 1.5 mm long, with minute reddish glands at the base of the pedicels. Calyx campanulate, up to 2 mm long, shortly 5-toothed, glabrous. Petals shortly united below, up to 4.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, linear-oblong, inflexed apically, glabrous. Stamens free among themselves, slightly adnate to the corolla basally; filaments up to 7.5 mm long; anthers up to 0.8 mm long, with a deciduous apical gland. Ovary up to 2 mm long, glabrous, sessile. Pod (only one collected) dark purplish-brown, 11x4 cm, straight, compressed, prominently transversely venose. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy
Suffrutex, up to 400 mm tall. Stems glabrous. Leaflets ovate, 5.5-5.0 x 2.0-6.5 mm, oblique; petiole, rhachis and rhachillae glabrous. Flowers in a raceme, 35-60 mm long. Flowers yellowish white. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Stems glabrous; petioles, rhachides and rhachillae glabrous. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Codd 10119 from Bellevue farm near Twentyfour Rivers in the Waterberg District of the Transvaal resembles E. obliqua. The stem, petioles, rhachides and rhachillae are glabrous or almost so, and the leaves have up to 6 pinnae pairs and up to 19 pairs of leaflets per pinna. The leaflets are 9-18 x 3-4 mm, ± oblong, oblique basally with an excentric midrib and two other prominent veins arising from the leaflet-base, conspicuously venose and distinctly mucronate apically. Although leaflet shape differs somewhat from the leaflet shape of the syntypes, Codd 10119 is closer to E. obliqua than to any of the other species and, for the present, is referred to E. obliqua var. glabra. Unfortunately Codd 10119 is sterile. Further collections are required to indicate whether or not Codd 10119 falls within the range of variation of E. obliqua. From: Ross, JH. 1974. The genus Elephantorrhiza. Bothalia 11(3): 247-257. [All rights reserved] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
E. obliqua is readily distinguished from all other species by its large ovate leaflets with prominent venation. E. obliqua appears to have a different underground root system to E. elephantina. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy
Stems glabrous; petioles, rhachides and rhachillae glabrous. From: Ross, JH. 1974. The genus Elephantorrhiza. Bothalia 11(3): 247-257. [All rights reserved] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Occurs in grassland. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy
Grassland, among rocks. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Apparently confined to the Transvaal. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy
Transvaal. From: Ross, JH. 1975. Mimosoideae. Fl. S. Africa 16(1): 1-155. BRI, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Waterberg District of the Transvaal. From: Ross, JH. 1974. The genus Elephantorrhiza. Bothalia 11(3): 247-257. [All rights reserved] As: Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: PhytoKeys 205: 124 (2022)
Type: South Africa. Transvaal, between Carolina and Oshoek, ~ 1.6 km from Robinson’s Farm, J. Burtt Davy 2976 (BM000081856, holo.; FHO, K000232281, iso.)
Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy
Published in: Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1921(5): 191 (1921)
Elephantorrhiza obliqua Burtt Davy var. glabra E.Phillips
Published in: Bothalia 1: 189 (1923)
Elephantorrhiza transvaalensis E.Phillips
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Fabales
FAMILY Fabaceae
SUBFAMILY Caesalpinioideae
TRIBE Mimoseae
GENUS Entada
SPECIES obliqua
19 results for Entada obliqua (Burtt Davy) S.A.O'Donnell & G.P.Lewis
Barcode: PRE1023667-0 Collector(s) & number: Molele, K, 78 | 2024-2-5
South Africa, Limpopo, Syringa Sands Game Reserve. Farm Rhenosterport 233 KQ.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0744230-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 804 | 1989-11-11
South Africa, North West, BRITS; BEESTEKRAAL GAME RES; C 45 KM N OF BRITS
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0538751-0 Collector(s) & number: Westfall, RH, 748 | 1979-10-28
South Africa, Limpopo, THABAZIMBI; KRANTZBERG; GROOTHOEK FARM PLATEAU
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0663828-0 Collector(s) & number: Westfall, RH, 1589 | 1983-10-22
South Africa, Limpopo, WATERBERG; ELANDSHOEK; MOOIMEISIESFONTEIN
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE1017805-0 Collector(s) & number: Sebothoma, PN, 1336 | 2022-10-20
South Africa, Limpopo, Waterberg. Ants Nest Nature Reserve. 1 km south.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0391102-0 Collector(s) & number: Jenkins, TJ, H 9128 | 1910-11-
South Africa, Mpumalanga, MIDDELBURG
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0695448-0 Collector(s) & number: Westfall, RH, 2040 | 1985-12-8
South Africa, Limpopo, NYLSTROOM DIST.; HEUNINGFONTEIN; RATELHOEK FARM
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0458186-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 10119 | 1961-11-21
South Africa, Limpopo, WATERBERG DIST.; TWENTY-FOUR RIVERS; BELLEVUE FARM
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0391116-0 Collector(s) & number: du Plessis, CJ, 1074 | 1968-11-13
South Africa, Mpumalanga, MIDDELBURG; DOORNKOP; EERSTEKAMP N. VAN PAD
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0391103-0 Collector(s) & number: Eiselen, H 1229 | 1919-12-
South Africa, Mpumalanga, MIDDELBURG DIST.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0714673-0 Collector(s) & number: Germishuizen, G, 3351 | 1985-11-4
South Africa, Limpopo, NYLSTROOM DIST.; 18 KM FROM NYLSTROOM TO WARMBATHS NEAR GROOT NYL TURNOFF. AMONG ROCKS
General notes: A low subshrub from a woody rootstock. Flowers yellow many in a compact spike, with a sharp smell.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0538754-0 Collector(s) & number: Westfall, RH, 749 | 1979-10-28
South Africa, Limpopo, THABAZIMBI; KRANTZBERG; GROOTHOEK FARM PLATEAU
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0391115-0 Collector(s) & number: Gower, S, PRE 53617 | 1921-12-13
South Africa, Mpumalanga, MIDDELBURG
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0715715-0 Collector(s) & number: de Wet, JI, 389 | 1986-12-4
South Africa, Limpopo, PERDEKOP DIST.; STERKFONTEIN 282 KQ
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0391114-0 Collector(s) & number: Dyer, RA, 3934 | 1939-3-8
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Middelburg Dist.; Aasvogelkop; 5 MI. N. Of Town
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2022
1997
SERIES
Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJStrelitzia 6: 1-681
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
1975
1974
1923
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Species of Elephantorrhiza in the South African herbaria Phillips, EPBothalia 1(1-3)187-193
No results found for Entada obliqua (Burtt Davy) S.A.O'Donnell & G.P.Lewis
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