Aeschynomene cristata Vatke
var. cristata

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Along D3508 Kalimbeza road

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Status:	Native
Description:	Robust shrubby herb forming a dense coppice-like growth up several meters tall, rooting stems procumbent and often immersed, covered with prominent lenticels and erect branches. Branches densely covered with sticky tubercular-based golden-brown hairs. Leaves 4–19 cm long, pinnate with 40–86-leaflets; leaflets linear to oblong, 6–22 mm long, obliquely emarginate at the base, entire or finely serrate, hairless but with ciliolate margins; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 7–20 mm long, straight, spurred, hairy. Inflorescences up to 8-flowered, axillary on a peduncle 3 cm long; pedicels 8–20 mm long; bracts ovate, 4–7 mm long. Calyx 2-lipped. Standard deep yellow to orange-yellow or sometimes brownish-purple, 1.8–3.3 cm long and wide, pubescent above outside; wings deep yellow to orange-yellow; keel petals yellow or brownish, frilled along their lower margins, hairy. Fruit linear, 5–11 cm long, straight or slightly curved, 6–12-jointed, hairless or sparsely hairy, slightly thickened on the margins, more or less straight or slightly constricted between the joints; articles oblong, compressed, mostly smooth or often with some spine-like tubercles up to 1 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name:	cristata: with a crest, referring to the roughly frilled margin of the standard.
Habitat:	Along margins of rivers and lakes and in permanent and seasonal swamps in grassland.
Altitude range:	5 - 1160 m
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Worldwide distribution:	CAR, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Caprivi Namibia.
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z,MS,GI
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 28 February 2018
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 280. (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 65. as Aeschynomene cristata Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 216. as Aeschynomene cristata Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 46. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 56. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 61. Verdcourt, B. (1974). Summary of the Leguminosae - Papilionoideae - Hedysareae (sensu lato) of Flora Zambesiaca Kirkia 9(2) Pages 390 - 392. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 62 - 75.

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