Aeschynomene warmingii Micheli

• Authority

  Rudd, Velva E. 1955. The American species of Aeschynomene. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 32: 1-172.

• Family

  Fabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Aeschynomene warmingii Micheli

• Type

  Type locality: Lagôa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Type collected by Warming, cited below

• Description

  Description - Stem prostrate or suberect, to about 5 dm. long, puberulent and also hispidulous; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 5-7 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide at base, hispidulous; leaves 5-7-foliolate, and rachis and petioles pubescent like the stem; leaflets elliptic-oblong, acute, 12-30 mm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, the upper and lower surfaces sparsely pubescent, the margins entire but closely ciliate; inflorescences few-flowered, about as long as the subtending leaf; peduncles and pedicles pubescent; bracts and bracteoles ovate, acute, about 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, sparsely hispidulous; flowers probably about 6-7 mm. long (mature flowers not seen); calyx about 3 mm. long; stamens about 6 mm. long; fruit 3- or 4-articulate, the stipe about 5-7 mm. long (or more ?), the articles about 3 mm. in diameter, pubescent (fide Micheli); seeds not seen.

• Discussion

  This species is inadequately known and it is difficult to place it in the key. From the one collection, it appears to be intermediate between the species having short-stipitate, few-articulate fruits and those with long-stipitate, multiarticulate fruits.