Flemingia grahamiana Wight & Arn.

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Flemingia grahamiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
Cecil Kop Nature Reserve, Mutare

Flemingia grahamiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
Cecil Kop Nature Reserve, Mutare

Flemingia grahamiana

Photo: Mark Hyde
By Buckland Road, Hatcliffe South Extension

Flemingia grahamiana

Photo: Mark Hyde
By Buckland Road, Hatcliffe South Extension

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Synonyms: Eriosema erythrocarpon Beck
Flemingia rhodocarpa Baker
Moghania grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze
Moghania rhodocarpa (Baker) Hauman
Common names: Stain-pod (English)
Frequency: Common
Status: Native
Description:
Perennial herb or woody subshrub, erect or subscandent, up to 2.5m high. Branches ribbed, covered with silky hairs when young. Leaves 3-foliate, up to 15 cm long, dull green above, pubescent and paler below, both surfaces with small reddish glands. Flowers in dense woolly clusters, greenish to creamy-white, sometimes with purple veining. Fruit a small inflated pod, up to 12 × 6 mm, covered in rusty-orange glands, leaving stains on touching.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: grahamiana: named after Robert C. Graham (1786-1845), Scottish physician and botanist.
Habitat: In grassland and open woodland, along roadsides and in disturbed areas, often on sandy or rocky soils.
Altitude range: (metres) 480 - 1800 m
Flowering time:Jul - Sep
Worldwide distribution: Widespread in Tropical Africa, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Also as far as southern India.
Zimbabwe distribution: N,C,E,S
Growth form(s): Shrub over 2 m.
Endemic status:
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Images last updated: Wednesday 9 June 2010
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 161. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 307. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 27.

Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 68.

Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 247.

Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 166 - 167. (Includes a picture).

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.

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 60.

Schmidt, E., Lötter, M. & McCleland, W. (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park Jacana, Johannesburg, South Africa Pages 206 - 207. (Includes a picture).

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 99.


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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Flemingia grahamiana.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=132150, retrieved 2 December 2024

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