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Pixiepeas
Melolobium
Melolobium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 14 species of small shrubs or perennial herbs native to southern Africa, which are found in southern and eastern Namibia, southwestern Botswana, and most of South Africa.
These plants are perennial herbs and small shrubs. Leaves are often sticky with exudate from small surface glands. Some have spine-tipped branches. The leaves have three leaflets. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme of flowers. The flowers are yellow, sometimes fading orange or purple.
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Minileaf Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium microphyllum
Yellow Thorn
speciesMelolobium candicans
Gummy Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium exudans
Needle Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium wilmsii
African Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium aethiopicum
Gland Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium adenodes
Humble Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium humile
Flutter Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium obcordatum
Gold Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium subspicatum
Grey Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium canescens
Brightpod Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium lampolobum
Spine Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium calycinum
Altitude Pixiepea
speciesMelolobium alpinum
Melolobium macrocalyx
speciesMelolobium macrocalyx
Melolobium stipulatum
speciesMelolobium stipulatum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138394.