Galactia dubia DC.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Non-woody vine, twining, attaining 2 m in length. Stems slender, green, appressed-pubescent. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; leaflets 1-4 x 0.8-2 cm, subcoriaceous, elliptical, oblong. or obovate, involute, the apex emarginate. rounded, mucronate, the base rounded, the margins entire; upper surface dark green, shiny or dull, puberulent or pubescent: lower surface pale green, dull, strigose or sericeous-pubescent, with the midvein prominent; petioles slender, pubescent, 1-2 cm long; stipules lanceolate, 2-3 mm long; stipels absent. Inflorescences of axillary pseudoracemes, few-flowered; rachis 1-4 cm long; flowers 2-3, clustered on the swellings of the rachis; bracts minute, persistent. Calyx almost campanulate, green, pilose, 5-10 mm long, the sepals 4, ovate, acuminate, 4-7 mm long, two of which are longer; corolla pale pink or lavender, the standard oblong-elliptical, 12-15 mm long, reflexed, greenish at the base on the inner surface, the wings and the keel 10-12 mm long. Legume 3-6 x 0.5-0.6 cm. oblong-linear, flattened, slightly curved, pubescent. Seeds ca. 4 mm long, oblong, dark brown.
Phenology - Flowering from January to October and fruiting from January to May.
Conservation Status - Native, relatively common.
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Common Names
iron weed