Taverniera lappacea (Forssk.) DC.

This species is native to NE Tropical Africa, Middle East to Pakistan. (Ref. POWO; 2022). There are 5 species of Taverniera found in Oman. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).

علم تشكل النبات


Subshrub or woody perennial herb ; up to 1 m tall , densely woolly pubescent throughout . Stems erect , branched , grey-green , white-pubescent with spreading hairs . Leaves 3-foliolate ; petiolule 0 . 5-1 mm ; stipules 1-3 mm , bifid , brown , persistent ; leaflets 3-14 x 3-12 mm , obovate to obcordate , entire margins , obtuse or sometimes emarginated and mucronate at apex , base cuneate , woolly pubescent on both surfaces . Inflorescences 1–5(–8)-flowered , in pedunculate racemes ; pedicel ± 1 mm . Flowers persisting and becoming brown chaffy in fruit ; calyx 3-4 mm , teeth ± 3 mm , lanceolate acuminate , woolly pubescent ; corolla with standard petal 5-7 mm , yellowish , pink or purple ; wings 2-3 mm . Fruit pod , flattened , 1-2-segmented , practically sessile , pubescent and covered with straight or curved or hooked spines , brown , indehiscent , 1-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .

وقت الإزهار


No Data

الوضع البيئي الحالي


Not Evaluated (NE)

الوفرة


Frequent

التوزيع الجغرافي والبيئي


الوصف غير متاح حاليًا

Distribution Map

المرادفات


Hedysarum lappaceum Forssk.
Taverniera stefaninii Chiov.

الإكثار


No data

العناية بالنبات


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الأسماء الشائعة


Not known

الأسماء المحلية


wial (Harsusi and Mehri)
awial (Bathari)

الاستخدامات


Not recorded yet

المراجع


*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *https://en.wikipedia.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.

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