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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Status:	Native
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.
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Habitat:	In grassland
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Worldwide distribution:	Cameroon, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 17 January 2007
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.

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