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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Multi-stemmed shrub 1–2 m tall with angular finely pubescent to glabrescent stems. Leaflets 3, 3–10 × 2–6 cm, oblong to elliptic-oblong or slightly ovate, the laterals only slightly asymmetric, rounded to slightly emarginate at the apex, rounded at the base, slightly discolorous, minutely appressed puberulous above, paler and more densely grey pubescent beneath; petiole 3–6 cm long; rhachis 1.2–2.5 cm long; petiolules 4–9 mm long; stipules 2–3 mm long, triangular, soon falling; stipels small, linear, deciduous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, much shorter than the subtending leaves, 5–7 cm long, often branched, 2–7 cm long; greyish or fulvous silky pubescent; peduncles less than 1 cm long; pedicels 4–7 mm long; bracts 5–8 × 2–6 mm, obovate, glabrous inside, mostly soon falling; bracteoles 5–6 × 2 mm, linear-lanceolate, deciduous. Calyx tube 3.5–5 mm long; lobes 5–7 × 2.5 mm, lanceolate, the lowest the longest, the upper pair joined for half to two-thirds their length. Standard crimson turning to deep mauve, almost black or carmine-red (fide Wilczek), sometimes white, 13–15 × 13–16 mm, rounded obovate, auriculate and with 2 calli. Pods up to 8 × 1.8 cm, falcate-oblanceolate, pubescent and with scattered glands and glandular hairs. Seeds not seen.(Source JSTOR) |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | baumii: after Hugo Baum (1867-1950), botanical collector on the Kunene-Sambesi Expedition of 1899-1900 in Angola. |
| Habitat: | Brachystegia woodland and dambo margins. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DR Congo, Zambia and Angola. |
| Provinces: | MO |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 77. Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 248 - 249. |