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Humularia elisabethvilleana
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Habit
Degraded miombo woodland
Manyama, Kalumbila District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Degraded miombo woodland
Manyama, Kalumbila District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Degraded miombo woodland
Manyama, Kalumbila District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect subshrub 1–2 m tall. Stems glabrous or with a very few scattered tubercular-based hairs. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, 10–31 × 8–25 mm, regularly or somewhat obliquely obcordate, the main nerve dividing the blade into unequal or subequal parts, the larger part at the most twice as broad as the narrower part, cuneate, glabrous, entire; venation prominent and reticulate on both surfaces; petiole 4–8 mm long; stipules 7–23 × 5–16 mm, elliptic or obovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, unequally auriculate at the base, leaf-like, entire, glabrous, persistent. Inflorescences 10–20-flowered; peduncle 3–4 mm long, sparsely pubescent with tubercular-based hairs; rhachis 2–5 cm long; pedicels 2 mm long; bracts green or purplish, 10–14 × 11–19 mm, split for c. one-third of their length into 2 obtuse or rounded and apiculate entire or sparsely ciliolate-denticulate lobes, glabrous; bracteoles 2–3 × 0.5–1 mm, lanceolate, entire, glabrous. Calyx 7 mm long, glabrous. Standard orange, 8–9 × 3–4 mm, panduriform. Fruit of 1 article, 5 mm long and wide, glabrous. |
| Type location: |
DRC |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | elisabethvilleana: of elisabethville, the old name for Lubumbashi, where the type specimen was collected. |
| Habitat: | Brachystegia woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1350 - 1500 m |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Mar |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia |
| National distribution: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial, shrub under 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 9 January 2025 |
| Literature: |
Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 141 - 146. (Includes a picture). |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Humularia elisabethvilleana
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