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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb with decumbent to shortly ascending silvery-hairy stems; hairs slightly biramous. Leaves 3-foliolate with linear-elliptic to oblanceolate leaflets. Stipules 1 at a node, resembling small leaflets. Inflorescences of 2-5 subumbellately arranged flowers or flowers solitary. Standard bright yellow inside, paler and lined red outside. Pods 15-20 mm, linear-oblong, straight. |
| Type location: |
South Africa, Eastern Cape. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | laxa: open, loose, lax, referring to the branches or inflorescence. |
| Habitat: | In grassland, most obvious after fire. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia to South Africa. |
| FZ divisions: | C,E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 223. 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 49. Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 242 - 245. (Includes a picture). |