Vigna schlechteri Harms

Selected images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record View all images (13)

Photo: Bart Wursten
By Circular Drive, Nyanga NP

Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps

Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)

Synonyms:	Dolichos reticulata Schltr. Vigna galpinii Burtt Davy Vigna nervosa Markötter
Common names:
Frequency:
Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial creeper or twiner with hairless or slightly pubescent stems. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets, 2-3 cm long; petiole 1.7-4 cm long; stipules peltate, 5-11 mm long. Flowers 8-9 mm long on a peduncle up to 1.2 cm long. Standard Pink with 2 whitish marks from the base; keel without a beak, slightly twisted towards the left. Pod linear-cylindrical, c. 3.5 cm long, haieless with a straight beak.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	schlechteri : after Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925), German botanist, traveler and plant collector in Africa.
Habitat:	Grassland.
Altitude range: (metres)	1800 - 2250 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Images last updated:	Saturday 3 August 2013
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 58. As Vigna nervosa Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 229. as Vigna nervosa Goodier, R. & Phipps, J.B. (1961). A revised checklist of the vascular plants of the Chimanimani Mountains Kirkia 1 Page 57. as Vigna galpinii Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Page 149. 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 52. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 94.

Other sources of information about Vigna schlechteri:

Our websites:

Flora of Mozambique: Vigna schlechteri

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Vigna schlechteri
African Plant Database: Vigna schlechteri
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Vigna schlechteri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Vigna schlechteri
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Vigna schlechteri
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Vigna schlechteri
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Vigna schlechteri
JSTOR Plant Science: Vigna schlechteri
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Vigna schlechteri
Plants of the World Online: Vigna schlechteri
Tropicos: Vigna schlechteri
Wikipedia: Vigna schlechteri