Dolichos petiolatus R.Wilczek

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Habit
Degraded miombo woodland
Mose-Satshi-Hongo, Lualaba Provinc
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Leaf
Degraded miombo woodland
Mose-Satshi-Hongo, Lualaba Provinc
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Degraded miombo woodland
Mose-Satshi-Hongo, Lualaba Provinc
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Description:	Erect herb 30–40 cm tall, arising from a perennial spherical woody rootstock. Stems annual, sparsely branched, usually zigzag, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets 3.6–19(28.5) × 0.2–1.8 cm, narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, glabrous or shortly pubescent, strongly 3-veined from base to apex; petiole 1.8–8(11) cm; petiolules 1–2 mm; stipules 10–14 × 2–7 mm, lanceolate, with lines of dark red pigment dots, caducous; stipels minute. Flowers axillary, solitary, in pairs or in 3–8-flowered fascicles; pedicels 3–24 mm long, sparsely to densely villous; bracts absent; bracteoles minute. Calyx tube 2–3 mm long, glabrous; lobes sparsely spreading pubescent. Standard purple, greenish or brownish, paler outside, 16–22 × 14–16 mm, elliptic or almost round; wings and keel purple, cream-coloured at the base. Pods 5.2–6.5 cm × 6–9 mm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, glabrous on the valve faces, but sparsely ciliate along the margins.
Type location:	DRC, Katanga
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Derivation of specific name:	petiolatus: with a leaf stalk or petiole.
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia
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Growth form(s):	Perennial.
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Images last updated:	Tuesday 21 January 2025
Literature:	Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Page 88.

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