Droogmansia pteropus (Baker) De Wild. [Agg]
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Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Mazogo, Lago, Niassa, Mozambique
Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Mazogo, Lago, Niassa, Mozambique
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kaperekeza road, Nyika National Park
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| Synonyms: | Dolichos pteropus Baker 
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| Description: 
 | Perennial herb, subshrub, shrub or very rarely a small tree. Leaflet elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes glaucous; base cuneate, rounded or weakly cordate; petiole winged, oblong to obcordate, sometimes nearly as large as the leaflet. Inflorescence usually elongated with flowers arranged in fascicles along the rhachis. Flowers white or yellow, usually with bluish-purple wings and keel. Fruit densely brown-hairy with 1-5 strongly flattened articles. | 
| Type location: 
 | Zambia, L.Tanganyika, Fwambo | 
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Burundi, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe | 
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | 
| Literature: | Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004).  A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33  Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 48. As Droogmansia pteropus  var. pteropus  Ntore, S. & al. (2024).  Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi    Page 121.   | 
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