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| Synonyms: |
Argyrolobium lejeunei R.Wilczek |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small shrub up to c. 1 m tall. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets lanceolate to broadly elliptic, 30-50 mm long; petiole 10-20 mm long; stipules lanceolate, 5-14 mm long, united along the leaf-opposed margin almost to the top, falling soon but leaving a ring-like scar c. 1 mm high. Flowers yellow. Pod oblong, 30-35 mm long, densely silky pubescent. |
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| Habitat: | At margins of rainforest and plantations, often at stream sides. |
| Altitude range: | 2250 - 2300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Burundi, Tanzania and Northern Malawi. |
| Malawi distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Page 262. |
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