Lotononis adpressa leptantha

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Overview

Endangered

Description

Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Genus Lotononis

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf palmately trifoliolate , rarely unifoliolate , stipules minute or foliaceous , solitary or in pairs. Inflorescence racemose or subumbellate, 1-many flowered, terminal or leaf-opposed. Calyx 5-lobed, the upper 4 united higher up than the lower lobe . Vexillum orbicular to oblong . Keel incurved . Stamens monadelphous , tube split along the upper side, 4 with long and 6 with short anthers . Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, style incurved, stigma terminal. Fruit oblong, 2-valved, many-seeded.

A genus with about 110 species, mainly S. African, a few species are found in N. Africa, Orient and Southern Europe.[1]

Habitat

Ecology: Grows in open grassland.


List of Habitats :4.4Grassland - Temperate

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lotononis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 219 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. acocksii · L. acuminata · L. acuticarpa · L. acutiflora · L. adpressa · L. adpressa leptantha · L. affinis · L. alpina subsp. multiflora · L. alpina multiflora · L. ambigua · L. angolense · L. angolensis · L. angustifolia · L. anthylloides · L. anthyllopsis · L. arenicola · L. argentea · L. argyrella · L. arida · L. aristata · L. azurea · L. azureoides · L. bachmanniana · L. bainesii (Lotononis) · L. barberae · L. basutica · L. benthamiana · L. biflora · L. bolusii · L. brachyantha · L. brachyloba · L. bracteata · L. bracteosa · L. brevicaulis · L. brierleyae · L. bullonii · L. burchellii · L. caerulescens · L. calycina · L. carinalis · L. carinata · L. carnea · L. carnosa · L. clandestina · L. complanata · L. comptonii · L. corymbosa · L. crumaniana · L. crumanina · L. curtii · L. curvicarpa · L. cytisoides · L. dahlgrenii · L. debilis · L. decidua · L. decumbens · L. delicata · L. delicatula · L. densa subsp. leucoclada · L. densa leucoclada · L. depressa · L. dichiloides · L. dichotoma · L. dieterlenii · L. digitata · L. dissitinodis · L. divaricata · L. dregeana · L. elongata · L. eriantha · L. eriocarpa · L. erisemoides · L. esterhuyseana · L. esterhuyseniana · L. evansiana · L. exstipulata · L. falcata · L. filifolia · L. flava · L. florifera · L. foliosa · L. fruticoides · L. furcata · L. galpinii · L. gebelia · L. genistoides · L. glabra · L. gracilifolia · L. gracilis · L. grandifolia · L. grandis · L. heterophylla · L. hirsuta · L. holosericea · L. humifusa · L. humilior · L. involucrata · L. involucrata peduncularis · L. jacottetii · L. lamprifolia

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Further Reading

• Pfab, M.F. and Victor, J.E. 2002. Threatened plants of Gauteng, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 68: 370-375.
• Retief, A. and Herman, P.P.J. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Van Wyk, B.-E. 1991. A synopsis of the genus Lotononis (Fabaceae: Crotalarieae). Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 14: 1-192.

Notes

Contributors

• Pfab, M.F. & Victor, J. 2003. Lotononis adpressa ssp. leptantha. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Pfab, M.F. (Gauteng Nature Conservation) & Victor, J. (National Botanical Institute) 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7165967
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15934878
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:965321-1
• IUCN ID: 44088
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1027524

Footnotes

1. "Lotononis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 32. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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