Eriosema montanum Baker f.

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Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park

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Near Muqueche River, Road to Mt Namuli, Serra de Gurue.

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John Meikle Forestry Reserve, Stapleford.

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Description:	Perennial shrubby herb, up to 2 m tall. Branches pubescent to densely shaggy with rusty hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, obovate-elliptic or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2–13 cm long, usually pointed at the apex, softly velvety and with orange glands on both surfaces; venation sometimes raised beneath; petiole 1–3.4.5 cm long; petiolules 1–4 mm long; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 2.5 cm long, hairy outside. Racemes with flowering part 2–7 cm long; peduncle (0.5)4–18(21) cm long, ferruginous hairy; pedicels c. 1–1.5 mm long; bracts soon falling, 0.7–1.4 cm long, linear, pilose. Calyx pubescent with appressed or spreading hairs, 4.5–5.5 mm long; lobes triangular, shorter than or about equalling the tube. Standard yellow, flushed or veined with red or purple-brown, obovate, 6.5–13 mm long, with orange-yellow glands; wings yellow; keel greenish-yellow or white sometimes tipped with brown, glandular. Pods elliptic to oblong, 1–1.7 cm long, covered with long ferruginous hairs and also an undercover of fine pubescence and glands.
Type location:	Malawi, Kenya
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Derivation of specific name:	montanum: of mountainous areas (montane)
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Worldwide distribution:	From Nigeria to Ethiopia, DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia Zimbabwe and Angola.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 159. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. As Eriosema montanum montanum 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. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 28. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. Fischer, E. & Killmann, D. (2008). Illustrated Field guide to the Plants of Nyungwe National Park Rwanda. University of Koblenz-Landau. Page 450. (Includes a picture). Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 225 - 226. 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. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 122. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 60. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 99. Troupin, G. (1983). Fabaceae (Papilionaceae) Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Page 123. (Includes a picture). Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 94.

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