Description:
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Erect, branched annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 50 cm tall.Branches densely covered with very short stiff hairs, c. 0.3 mm long. Leaves 3-foliolate with oblanceolate leaflets 3-10 mm long, sparsely and finely pubescent above; densely covered in short stiff appressed hairs beneath; petiole 2-5.5 mm long. Flowers in densely 3-10-flowered terminal racemes. Calyx appressed pubescent. Standard elliptic, 6-7.5 mm long, yellow inside, sometimes marked red, red outside, pubescent towards the apex of the midvein. Keel angular and twisted near the apex 7-9 mm long. Pod sessile, shortly cylindric, 6-7 mm long, appressed pubescent. |
| Literature:
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Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 85.
Harris, T., Darbyshire, I. & Polhill, R. (2011). New species and range extensions from Mt Namuli, Mt Mabu and Mt Chiperone in northern Mozambique Kew Bulletin 66(2) Pages 242 - 244. (Includes a picture).
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