Adenolobus (Benth. & Hook.f.) Torre & Hillc.

Description of the genus

Erect to prostrate shrubs or small trees, sometimes with stalked glands. Tendrils absent. Leaves alternate or crowded on spur shoots, composed of 2 united leaflets, emarginate to shallowly bilobed, palmately nerved, petiolate, stipulate. Flowers in elongate racemes or 1–several on spur shoots, with bracts and paired bracteoles. Hypanthium obconic to cupular. Calyx with 5 relatively short lobes. Petals 5, yellow, ± marked red, subsimilar, long clawed, the adaxial one slightly modified. Stamens 10, all fertile, in 2 whorls of 5, of two lengths; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary long stipitate; style elongate; stigma small. Pods stipitate, oblong-reniform, dehiscent, the valves thinly textured and not twisting, 1–10-seeded. Seeds compressed, ovate in outline, slightly produced to the small subapical hilum.

Worldwide: Species 2, in southern Africa.

Botswana: 1 taxon.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
pechuelii (Kuntze) Torre & Hillc. subsp. pechuelii N

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External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Adenolobus
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Adenolobus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Adenolobus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Adenolobus
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iNaturalist: Adenolobus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Adenolobus
JSTOR Plant Science: Adenolobus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Adenolobus
Plants of the World Online: Adenolobus
Tropicos: Adenolobus
Wikipedia: Adenolobus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Genus page: Adenolobus.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2064, retrieved 28 March 2024

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