Code
RHNSE
Growth form
Liana
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
RHNSE
Growth form
Liana
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Glycine malacophylla Spreng. |
| synonym | Rhynchosia senaarensis Schweinf. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Rhynchosia malacophylla is a perennial herbaceous plant, glabrous to slightly pubescent, creeping or climbing, that can measure 3m long. The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate, with oval-rhombic leaflets, sparsely covered with golden glands on the underside. The loose inflorescence includes a dozen yellow flowers. The fruit is an oblong-oval pod covered with a thin and glandular pubescence. The seed is kidney shape and marbled.
General habit
Perennial herbaceous plant, rather glabrous, trailing or climbing, reaching 3 meters long.
Underground system
Plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is hairy in the Mascarene but not viscous. In other geographic areas, it can be glabrous.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate, 4-16 cm long. The base of the petiole is framed by two narrow stipules, ovate-triangular, 3 to 5 mm long, which are deciduous. The ovate-rhombic leaflets with obtuse to slightly acuminate apex, are 1 to 4.5 cm long (up to 6.5 cm) and 1 to 5.5 cm wide. The two sides are slightly hairy or glabrous. The lower surface is studded with golden color glands. The margin is densely covered with short stiff hairs. The two lateral leaflets are very unequal.
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped by 6 to 12 in a loose inflorescence, 5 to 23 cm long. The oval, narrow bracts measure 1.5 to 2 mm long.
Flower
The yellow flower is papilionaceous type. It measures 1.5 cm long. The pedicel measures 1.5 to 3 mm long. The calyx (3.5 to 7 mm) is covered with a dense pubescence. The standard, obovate circular (8-14 mm long), yellow in color, sometimes streaked with red, is pubescent and glandular. The lower narrow lobe is the longest.
Fruit
The fruit is an oblong-obovate pod of 15 to 20 mm long and 4.5 to 7 mm wide, with rounded end and tapering base, covered with fine glandular hairs.
Seed
Seed, round, kidney-shaped, 4.5 mm long, 3 mm wide and 2 mm thick. Its integument is marbled.
Rhynchosia malacophylla is a perennial herbaceous plant, glabrous to slightly pubescent, creeping or climbing, that can measure 3m long. The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate, with oval-rhombic leaflets, sparsely covered with golden glands on the underside. The loose inflorescence includes a dozen yellow flowers. The fruit is an oblong-oval pod covered with a thin and glandular pubescence. The seed is kidney shape and marbled.
General habit
Perennial herbaceous plant, rather glabrous, trailing or climbing, reaching 3 meters long.
Underground system
Plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is hairy in the Mascarene but not viscous. In other geographic areas, it can be glabrous.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate, 4-16 cm long. The base of the petiole is framed by two narrow stipules, ovate-triangular, 3 to 5 mm long, which are deciduous. The ovate-rhombic leaflets with obtuse to slightly acuminate apex, are 1 to 4.5 cm long (up to 6.5 cm) and 1 to 5.5 cm wide. The two sides are slightly hairy or glabrous. The lower surface is studded with golden color glands. The margin is densely covered with short stiff hairs. The two lateral leaflets are very unequal.
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped by 6 to 12 in a loose inflorescence, 5 to 23 cm long. The oval, narrow bracts measure 1.5 to 2 mm long.
Flower
The yellow flower is papilionaceous type. It measures 1.5 cm long. The pedicel measures 1.5 to 3 mm long. The calyx (3.5 to 7 mm) is covered with a dense pubescence. The standard, obovate circular (8-14 mm long), yellow in color, sometimes streaked with red, is pubescent and glandular. The lower narrow lobe is the longest.
Fruit
The fruit is an oblong-obovate pod of 15 to 20 mm long and 4.5 to 7 mm wide, with rounded end and tapering base, covered with fine glandular hairs.
Seed
Seed, round, kidney-shaped, 4.5 mm long, 3 mm wide and 2 mm thick. Its integument is marbled.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
No Data
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Perenial
Morphology
Growth form
Liana
Liana climbing structure
Liana without tendril
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Broad leaves
Compound leaf type
Trifoliate leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
Lanceolate stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Compressed pod in section
Lamina base
acute
Lamina margin
ciliate
entire
Lamina apex
apiculate
obtuse
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Glabrous
Lamina section
embossed
Lamina Veination
3 opposite at the basis
Flower color
Yellow
Inflorescence type
Raceme
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Glabrous
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Climber
Look Alikes
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| terminal leaflet larger than the length | large leaf (in order of 15 cm) | R. malacophylla |
| terminal leaflet as long as wide | R. viscosa | |
| small leaf (in order of 7 cm) | R. minima |
Identification keys of lianescent Fabaceae
| Bipinnate leaves | 1 to 2 pairs of pinnae | Mimosa pudica | |||||
| 3 to 9 pairs of pinnae | Mimosa diplotricha | ||||||
| Pinnate leaves | Clitoria heterophylla | ||||||
| Trifoliate leaves | symmetrical lateral leaflets | elliptical or lateral leaflets | terminal leaflets equal to lateral leaflets | Teramnus labialis | |||
| Terminal leaflets larger than lateral leaflets | very marked ribs | Cajanus scarabaeoides | |||||
| ribs lightly marked | leaflets > 10 mm | Desmodium adscendens | |||||
| leaflets < 10 mm | Desmodium triflorum | ||||||
| Ends of leaflets wedged | Narrow lanceolate leaflets (2 cm) | Macroptilium lathyroides | |||||
| large acuminate leaflets | Trigonal stem, scabrous at the angles | Desmodium intortum | |||||
| Cylindrical stem | Leaflets with a silver tinge | petiolules of 2 mm | Desmodium incanum | ||||
| petiolules 5 to 15 mm | Desmodium uncinatum | ||||||
| Green uniform leaflets | wide terminal leaflet (7 cm) | Centrosema pubescens | |||||
| very wide terminal leaflet(15 cm) | Centrosema plumieri | ||||||
| asymmetrical lateral leaflets | Terminal leaflet has a longer width than length | Rhynchosia malacophylla | |||||
| terminal leaflet as wide as long | large leaves (15 cm) | Rhynchosia viscosa | |||||
| small leaves (7 cm) | Rhynchosia minima | ||||||
| elongated terminal leaflets | lateral leaflets with a single rounded lobe | ||||||
| lateral leaflets without lobe | large stipules (6 mm) | Lablab purpureus | |||||
| small stipules (2 mm) | Mucuna pruriens | ||||||
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Reunion Island
Origin
Rhynchosia malachophylla is native to East Africa and Cameroon.
Worldwide distribution
Species introduced in Reunion Island.
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Reunion: Rhynchosia malachophylla is present locally in the sugar cane fields on the southwest of the island.
Reunion: Rhynchosia malachophylla is present locally in the sugar cane fields on the southwest of the island.
Wiktrop
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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References
- Bosser J., Cadet TH., Guého J. & Marais W. 1990. Flore des Mascareignes, Vol. 80 Légumineuses in Bosser J., Fergusson I.K. Soopramanien C. ed. Flore des Mascareignes, La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues. MSIRI, Maurice, IRD, France, RBG, UK.
Information Listing > References
- Bosser J., Cadet TH., Guého J. & Marais W. 1990. Flore des Mascareignes, Vol. 80 Légumineuses in Bosser J., Fergusson I.K. Soopramanien C. ed. Flore des Mascareignes, La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues. MSIRI, Maurice, IRD, France, RBG, UK.
La flore des mauvaises herbes de la Canne à Sucre à La Réunion. Caractérisation à partir des témoins des essais d’herbicides. 2005-2016
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Rhynchosia%2520malacophylla
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Rhynchosia |
| Species | Rhynchosia malacophylla (Spreng.) Bojer |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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