Eriosema macrostipulum Baker f.
var. macrostipulum

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Eriosema macrostipulum var. macrostipulum

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Near Kopje Tops, Mavhuradonha Wilderness Area

Photo: Bart Wursten
C. 4 km east of Madziwa Mine

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Synonyms:	Eriosema erectum Baker f. Eriosema sousae M.A. Exell
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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect perennial herb, up to 60 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock with lateral tubers. Branches shortly pubescent and with a few longer hairs. Leaves usually 3-foliolate. Leaflets ovate, elliptic to linear-lanceolate, up to 21 cm long but usually shorter, sparsely pubescent above, more densely so and paler beneath, densely covered with orange-red glands on both surfaces; petiole 0.7-4.5 cm long; stipules quite-leaf-like, lanceolate, sickle-shaped, 10-21 mm long, green. Flowers in dense terminal racemes, up to 8 cm long on a pubescent peduncle 1-6 cm long. Standard and keel greenish-yellow, densely covered with orange-red glands; wings brighter yellow, glandular. Pods elliptic-oblong, 10-12 mm long, covered in long whitish or rust-coloured hairs and also finely pubescent.
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Derivation of specific name:	macrostipulum: with large stipules
Habitat:	Brachystegia woodland, mixed miombo woodland, tall grassland and in abandoned cultivations.
Altitude range:	600 - 1500 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Mali, Nigeria, CAR, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	N,T
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Literature:	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 68. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 227 - 228. 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 48. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 60.

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