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Lespedeza cuneata

(Dum.Cours.) G.Don (1832)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Lespedeza

Chinese lespedeza

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subshrubs 6–9 dm tall.

Stems: Stems many branched, densely pubescent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate, closely spaced. Leaflets obovate or narrowly obovate; grayish green, 5–20 mm long, 1–15 mm wide. Apex emarginate, sometimes abruptly truncate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces densely pubescent. Leaflet margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules small, distinct, caducous.

Flowers: Flowers subsessile, up to 7 mm long, (1)2–4 per cluster. Flowers in clusters on a short, axillary axis, bracts small, persistent, subtending 2 flowers. Flowers papilionaceous; bracteoles at base of calyx. Calyx lobes 5, acute, 3.5–5 mm long, densely pubescent, persistent in fruit. Corolla pale yellow tinged red, in some flowers absent along with stamens, standard with violet red blotches at base, 5–6.5 mm long, keel petals straight. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct, the other 9 connate into a tube. Ovary superior; style 1; ovule 1, apical.

Fruit: Pods not stipitate; 2.5–4 mm long and slightly narrower; apiculate; with reticulate ridges. Seeds 1 per fruit; pale brown; reniform; ca. 1.5 mm long; ca. 1 mm in diameter.

Ploidy: 2n = 20; 22

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Lespedeza cuneata var. cuneata

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Not in flora

Island Status

O'ahu Not in flora

Dispersal Agents

Birds

Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Tiffany Flood
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii

Bibliography

Name Published In: Gen. Hist. 2: 307 (1832)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:679 (O? [single spm. from a Honolulu experimental station garden, 1940], DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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