Eriosema chrysadenium Taub.
var. chrysadenium

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Chinyakwaremba, Vumba

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Road down to Nyamuakwarara River, John Meikle Research Station

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Description:	Erect perennial herb, 7 to 40 cm, growing from a woody rootstock, or a series of small tubers. Stems covered in short hairs, mixed with longer glandular hairs. Leaves 1-foliolate, more or less broadly ovate to almost round, more or less velvety on both surfaces, many of the hairs yellowish and glandular based, venation prominent below, often reddish-brown. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes on a long, glandular hairy peduncle. Standard dark blackish purple-brown outside, creamy-pink with darker reddish-purple lines inside; keel creamy, sometimes tipped with red. Pods c. 1.2 × 9 mm, obliquely oblong, covered in short and long hairs and sparse glands.
Type location:	Angola
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Worldwide distribution:	Cameroon, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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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. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. As: Eriosema chrysadenium Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 236 - 238. 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. Troupin, G. (1983). Fabaceae (Papilionaceae) Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Page 122. (Includes a picture).

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Eriosema chrysadenium Taub. var. chrysadenium