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Lotus lebrunii

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ15435881 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lotus lebrunii is species in the genus Lotus endemic to the DR Congo.

Description

This species is a classic Lotus except for small clustered flowers in five to sevens.

It is a perennial trailing herb.

Conservation status

This species is considered Threatened by the Kew database.

Taxonomy

This species may be the result of introgression between L. becquetii & L. goetzei. It looks almost identical to L. becquetii.

Editorial summary

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lotus, lebrunii and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lotus lebrunii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.